PROCEDURES
X-RAYS
MRI / CT
CRMA
EMG
FACET JOINT BLOCKADE
• CERVICAL • THORACIC • LUMBAR
CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE
TESTING
• CERVICAL • THORACIC • LUMBAR
EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTIONS
INTERVERTEBRAL DISC TESTING
• CERVICAL • THORACIC • LUMBAR
SACROILIAC JOINT INJECTIONS
PERIFERAL JOINT INJECTIONS
• SHOULDER • KNEE • HIP • ELBOW
• WRIST • FOOT
LIGAMENT / TENDON / MUSCLE
INJECTIONS
• TOO MANY TO LIST
SYMPATHETIC BLOCKS
• STELLATE • LUMBAR SYMPTATHETIC
• Rule out serious issues
• Start conservative rehabilitative
treatments right away
• Keep functioning
• Correct nutrition
• Positive attitude
• Avoid stress
• Sleep is essential
• Testing as indication
• Specialists if needed
• Maintain maximum medical
improvement (MMI)
• While improving function
and increase activity
• Continued approprate use
of conservative therapeutic
modalities
• Appropriate use or weaning of
medications if utilized
• If improved move to maintance phase.
• If not improved, then
diagnostic testing (imaging, procedural)
• Therapeutic Procedures
• Steroids
• Denervation Procedures (RF)
• Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT)
• Platelet Rich Plasma
• Stem Cells
• Prolotherapy
• Achieve Maximal Medical Improvement
(MMI)