We are a minimally-invasive spine center and pain management center offering interventional pain therapies from a holistic rehabilitation medicine perspective. We use state-of-the-art technologies, most commonly with different types of interventions including tubes, radio wands, wands, probes, implantable technologies, spinal cord stimulators, pain pumps, and cement to address underlying structural abnormalities to relieve pain and improve function.
Where we cannot improve or change structural problems, we can almost always improve your quality of life and monitor you long-term making sure no other new structural issues arise. The term “serial-exam” has been applied. We deal with any new issues at that time.
This area of medicine is moving fast with frequent new technology. Many of the problems which used to require open surgery no longer do.
We work closely with doctors of other specialties including different types of spine surgeons and orthopedists as well as different types of therapists.
No one is hopeless.
No one is “too far gone”.
No one is “at the end of the line”.
NO ONE should give up.
We provide comprehensive care which we have found to be quite unique AND effective.
Comprehensive care includes ordering diagnostic tests, reviewing those tests with you and formulating a treatment plan.
It includes medication management, including which one(s) to avoid, selection of those medications, adjustment of those medications over time at follow-up visits, ordering and directing therapies (PT/OT/Biofeedback), adjustment of those therapies, use of manual medicine and the whole host of the interventional treatments which are the primary focus of the practice.
While we follow many patients long-term, we try not to keep you in a never-ending cycle of treatment. We want you to feel better and say you are doing well enough for us to leave you alone. The greatest thing we like to hear patients say is, “I’m doing great and I’ll call you when I need you!”
Many of the problems that have existed before and after surgery, or even after several surgeries, can be alleviated. This is especially true if you have had prior surgery on your lower back.
Dr. Mike’s favorite patients are the ones who have had multiple surgeries and have been told there is nothing else that can be done.
DO NOT BELIEVE THERE IS NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE FOR YOUR PAIN.