Services – Velazquez Pain Relief Center

DEDICATED TO HELPING YOU

At Velazquez Pain Relief Center, we want to target your pain right at the source. Your specific pain may come from a number of causes including: joint arthritis, disc disease, ligamentous injury, and muscular sources. It is our goal to find these causes, and provide the best treatment. Most of the treatments we offer are minimally invasive/ non-surgical and can show immediate results and relieve your pain.

Neck Pain

Common causes of neck pain include: muscle strain, injury to ligaments, arthritis in the joints of the spine, and compression of nerves (from herniated discs or spinal stenosis).

• Interlaminar epidural steroid injection
• Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
• Facet joint injection
• Medial branch nerve block
• Radiofrequency ablation of medial branch nerves

Nerve Pain

• Sphenopalatine ganglion block
• Stellate ganglion block
• Splanchnic nerve block
• Lumbar plexus block
• Superior hypogastric plexus block
• Ganglion impar block

Thoracic Pain

• Interlaminar epidural steroid injection
• Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
• Facet joint injection
• Medial branch nerve block
• Radiofrequency ablation of medial branch nerves
• Intercostal nerve blocks

Joint Pain

Joint pain can result from inflammation of the cartilage, bone, ligaments, tendons or muscles within or around a joint. Many different conditions can lead to painful joints, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, gout, and muscle sprains.

• Shoulder girdle joints and upper extremity
• Knee joint injection and RFA genicular nerves for chronic knee pain
• Hip joint
• Greater trochanteric bursa

Low Back Pain

Low back pain is the most frequent musculoskeletal complaint. Common causes include: damage or irritation to nerves, joints, discs, ligaments, and muscles of the lower back.

• Interlaminar epidural steroid injection
• Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
• Facet joint injection
• Medial branch nerve block
• Radiofrequency ablation of medial branch nerves

Minimally Invasive Procedures

• Thoracolumbar spinal cord stimulator trial
• Thoracolumbar spinal cord stimulator implantation
• Vertebral Augmentation Kyphoplasty
• Intrathecal pump implantation

Sacral/Tail Bone Pain

Sacral or tail bone pain usually feels like low back and buttock pain. Occasionally, the pain in the low back cause changes in movement/walking resulting in secondary pain on the side of the hip or leg.

• Caudal epidural steroid injection
• Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
• Sacroiliac joint injection, cluneal nerve block, S4/S5 nerve blocks