At the clinic of Franics M. Saldanha, M.D., we treat patients the same way we would treat members of our own family. Pain has a way of affecting a patient’s life in every aspect, so we provide treatment for their entire physical, mental, and emotional being in a multi-disciplinary approach.  An Interventional Pain Specialist may be able to help recently developed acute pain, ongoing or chronic pain in your leg, knee, hip, shoulder, arm, back, or neck.

In subanesthetic doses, Ketamine has been used quite effectively in the management of treatment-resistant major depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, and as well in emergencies during periods of severe major depression with suicidal ideations. Ketamine is also useful in treating migraines, with and without aura, as well as other types of primary headaches, such as cluster headaches, chronic daily headache, paroxysmal hemicrania and migraines with face pain/headaches.

These therapies can be used to treat acute or chronic pain conditions related to degenerative disease. Regenerative therapies include obtaining concentrated platelets, growth factors or adult stem cells to accelerate the healing process.  Regenerative Medicine therapies are performed as outpatient procedures. They involve an injection of concentrated growth factors or stem cells to regenerate and heal tissues in degenerative spinal discs, joints, muscles, tendons or ligaments.