Pain and Spine Treatment in San Antonio

Our Message

Personalized Treatment Plans

No two patients are alike. Our research-based mission is to identify your unique source of pain, draw on treatments sometimes forgotten and newly emerging, create options tailored precisely to you, and get to the root cause of your discomfort.

Responsible Therapies

Masking pain with pharmaceuticals in not a solution. We focus on restoration of anatomies that generate pain and appropriate use of supporting drug therapies to enable our patients to improve quality of life.

Life Beyond Limits

Pain steals personal freedom. Only by effectively treating the cause can we push back the limits on life that pain creates. Our goal is to restore you to a more active life, beyond limits.

Medical Services & Procedures

Facial Pain and Headaches

Facial pain is often the result of complex nerve networks being disrupted.

Low Back, Neck and Thoracic Pain

Back and neck pain are among the most frequent complaints we see and can be among the most disruptive to everyday life.

Abdominal, Pelvic and Sacral Pain

The diagnosis and treatment of these symptoms is complex and involved.

Neuropathic Pain

Pain from nerves outside the spinal column cause some of the most common and painful conditions we face today.

Myofascial Pain

Myofascial pain is a soft tissue pain syndrome with local and referred pain arising from trigger points.

Stem Cell Therapy

Stem cells take on the properties of the cells they are surrounded by. Supplying a damaged area of the body with stem cells can help promote regrowth and regeneration.

Ketamine Infusion

Ketamine infusions are most often used when a patient experiences pain considered to be neuropathic in origin. These intravenously administered infusions help block the brain’s pain signal transmissions.

SI Joint fusion

SI joint fusion involves a minimally invasive procedure in which a bone graft along with other instruments are used to encourage bone growth over the sacroiliac joint, ultimately creating one immobile unit.

Cancer Pain

The changes that may occur when diagnosed with cancer can be profound.

Intraarticular Injections for Pain Management

The injection of steroids – particularly for the shoulders, hips and knees – is effective to reduce arthritis pain and inflammation.

Fluoroscopy Guided Epidural Steroid Injections

Where pain and Inflammation might be caused from a lifetime of physical activity, acute injury or chronic degenerative changes, we have a range of injection procedures that have proven effective for relief.

Spinal Cord Stimulation

When surgery may not be an option, stimulation regimens can be used to treat certain conditions and other forms of chronic pain.

Vertebral Augmentation

When osteoporosis or cancer cause painful compression fractures, one of the best ways we have to improve spinal stability and decrease pain is vertebral augmentation.

Medial Branch Blocks

When pain is primarily originating from the spine itself, an option is the performance of medial branch blocks.

Radiofrequency Ablation

When the medial branch block proves to be successful in managing your symptoms, our next step is to perform Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) at those same levels.

Sacral Lateral Branch Blocks

Sacroiliac joint dysfunction leads to pain in the low back and hip which is worsened when remaining seated or standing for extended periods of time.

Sympathetic Nerve Blocks

Sympathetic nerve blocks can be used to diagnose or treat pain involving the nerves of the sympathetic nervous system throughout the body.

Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD Procedure)

Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD Procedure) is a safe procedure that can help patients diagnosed with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) stand longer and walk farther with less pain.

Cancer Pain and Neuromodulation

Pain can be associated with cancer during, or after, diagnosis and treatment. Controlling cancer pain can contribute to resiliency and methods may include use of intrathecal drug delivery systems, a type of neuromodulation therapy.

Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain

Usually mechanical low back pain improves over days to weeks with ice, heat, physical therapy, and medications, If it lasts more than 90 days and becomes chronic, other treatment options may be considered. Among those are neuromodulation using medication or neurostimulation. The latter method is intended to help reactivate muscle control of the lower spine to restore functional stability, in order to decrease pain.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Complex regional pain syndrome is an uncommon nerve disorder with out-of-proportion pain.

Epilepsy

For treatment-resistant epilepsy, there are three potential types of neuromodulation treatment: vagus nerve stimulation, responsive neurostimulation, or deep brain stimulation.

Neuropathic Pain

Chronic neuropathic pain can impact quality of life; when medication, physical therapy, and neurolytic procedures do not provide sufficient relief, neuromodulation may be considered; it disrupts pain signals through targeted stimulation of the nervous system, such as the spinal cord or peripheral nerves.

Pelvic Pain

Chronic pelvic pain is a debilitating condition, affecting men and women, that lasts more than six months. Management can be elusive since imaging results are typically normal. However, newer methods, backed by science, offer hope to patients who still suffer.

Bone Tumor Ablation

This patented technology utilizes microinfusion to provide a reliable and effective solution for individuals who are living with painful metastatic tumors.

Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy

PRP is blood plasma that has been enriched with platelets. As a concentrated source of platelets, PRP contains several different growth factors and other cytokines that help stimulate the healing of bone and soft tissue.