Pain Management
Pain Treatment
Dr. Saldanha believes a strong partnership between the patient and their clinician is essential to the treatment process. In order to treat chronic pain, the patient and clinician must be committed to meet, evaluate, and reassess the treatment plan on a regular basis. When it comes to treating long-term chronic pain, Dr. Saldanha has the resources that you need.
At the clinic of Francis 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. In each case a complete medical, surgical, and therapeutic evaluation is completed by Dr. Saldanha, in addition to a full musculoskeletal evaluation, an independent medical evaluation, disability and future medical need assessments, and impairment ratings.
An interventional pain specialist may be able to help you if you have one of these symptoms:
- Ongoing or chronic pain in your leg, knee, hip, shoulder, arm, back, or neck, especially if these symptoms haven’t been checked out by a doctor
- Recently developed acute pain in your leg, knee, hip, shoulder, arm, back, or neck after six weeks of physical therapy or other conservative treatments
Interventional Procedures
Interventional Procedures
Epidural Steroid Injections
Commonly used to treat radicular pain (pain that radiates from the spine downward through an irritated spinal nerve root)
Medial Branch Blocks
A minimally invasive non-surgical treatment that temporarily interrupts pain signals coming from the medial branch nerves to the brain.
Radiofrequency Ablation
A procedure that uses an electrical current produced by a radio wave to heat up a small area of nerve tissue in order to decrease pain signals from that area.
Lumbar Facet Joint Block
An injection of local anesthetic that numbs one or several of the joints on both of each vertebrae going down the side of the spine in the lower back.
Spinal Cord Stimulator
An increasingly popular procedure that changes pain signals travelling through the spinal cord to the brain by delivering low-level electrical impulses to the spinal cord.
Epidural Steroid Injections
Commonly used to treat radicular pain (pain that radiates from the spine downward through an irritated spinal nerve root)
Medial Branch Blocks
A minimally invasive non-surgical treatment that temporarily interrupts pain signals coming from the medial branch nerves to the brain.
Radiofrequency Ablation
A procedure that uses an electrical current produced by a radio wave to heat up a small area of nerve tissue in order to decrease pain signals from that area.
Lumbar Facet Joint Block
An injection of local anesthetic that numbs one or several of the joints on both of each vertebrae going down the side of the spine in the lower back.
Spinal Cord Stimulator
An increasingly popular procedure that changes pain signals travelling through the spinal cord to the brain by delivering low-level electrical impulses to the spinal cord.