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Complete List of Procedures and Indications (by body region)

Below is a sample list of procedures performed at Peninsula Pain Care. Procedures are performed at the office on El Camino Real in Palo Alto, or at a local surgery center or hospital.

 
Head and Neck
  • Headache management (Botox)
  • Cervical epidural injections
  • stellate ganglion blocks
  • trigeminal nerve block for trigeminal neuralgia, facial blocks for facial nerve pain
  • occipital blocks for posterior headaches
  • peripheral nerve blocks: periorbital nerves, postauricular for posttraumatic nerve pain
  • trigger point injections for myofascial pain syndrome
  • Botox injection of chronic spasticity
 
Extremities (shoulders, arms, hands, legs, and feet)
  • Cervical epidural injections for herniated disc pain and arm pain
  • lumbar epidural injections and selective nerve root blocks for leg pain (sciatica) or spinal stenosis
  • stellate ganglion blocks for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
  • spinal cord stimulators for radiculopathy, CRPS or advanced ischemic pain
  • peripheral nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation: ulnar, radial, median, femoral, peroneal for posttraumatic nerve pain
 
Chest, abdomen, or pelvis
  • Thoracic epidural injections for mid-back pain and/or postherpetic neuralgia
  • intercostal nerve blocks for chronic chest wall pain after breast or thoracic surgery
  • celiac plexus block for cancer pain
  • hypogastric plexus block for chronic pelvic pain
  • impar ganglion for chronic rectal pain or coccygeal pain
  • sacral foramen injection for pelvic pain
  • spinal cord stimulators
  • peripheral nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation: pudendal nerve block, ilioinguinal nerve block for posttraumatic nerve pain

Spine and joints
  • Transforaminal or interlaminar epidural injections for spinal stenosis or sciatica
  • selective nerve root blocks for radiating nerve pain in legs (sciatica)
  • facet blocks and radiofrequency ablation for chronic neck or low back pain from arthritis
  • joint injections: sacroiliac, shoulder, knee, hip injections
  • bursa injections
  • disc procedures and ablation
  • Heat nerve ablation for chronic postamputation pain or phantom limb pain
  • Prolotherapy for ligamentous pain
  • spinal cord stimulator trial and implant
       
 
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