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Pain Management Treatments Offered in New Jersey

Chronic pain has a significant impact on those affected, keeping them from work, family activities, and more. Yet each year, new, safe, and effective treatments are discovered to address the conditions that cause chronic pain. At Integrated Medical Care, Thomas Ragukonis, MD uses his extensive experience to provide the most advanced interventional pain management treatments available at our Paramus, West New York, Union, and Berkely Heights locations.

Treatments We Provide

Before Dr. Ragukonis can develop a treatment plan, he must diagnose the cause of your pain. Integrated Medical Care utilizes state-of-the-art electrodiagnostic techniques to ensure accurate results. These tests read and analyze the electrical impulses between muscles and nerves. By detecting where the signal falters, doctors can track pain back to its source.

Nerve Conduction Studies

Before Dr. Ragukonis can develop a treatment plan, he must diagnose the cause of your pain. Integrated Medical Care utilizes state-of-the-art electrodiagnostic techniques to ensure accurate results. These tests read and analyze the electrical impulses between muscles and nerves. By detecting where the signal falters, doctors can track pain back to its source.

Electrodiagnostic Testing Electromyography

Before Dr. Ragukonis can develop a treatment plan, he must diagnose the cause of your pain. Integrated Medical Care utilizes state-of-the-art electrodiagnostic techniques to ensure accurate results. These tests read and analyze the electrical impulses between muscles and nerves. By detecting where the signal falters, doctors can track pain back to its source.

Spinal Stenosis

Lower back pain is one of the most prevalent and debilitating forms of chronic pain and can be caused by any number of treatable conditions.

Treatments for Lower Back Pain

If you are experiencing pain in your middle back, it may stem from a condition we can treat.

Mid-Back Conditions and Treatments

Before Dr. Ragukonis can develop a treatment plan, he must diagnose the cause of your pain. Integrated Medical Care utilizes state-of-the-art electrodiagnostic techniques to ensure accurate results. These tests read and analyze the electrical impulses between muscles and nerves. By detecting where the signal falters, doctors can track pain back to its source.

Dorsal Root Ganglion Therapy

The M.I.L.D. procedure, which stands for Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression, is a new approach to reduce pain and improve mobility for people with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).

M.I.L.D. (Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression)

Vertiflex is a cutting-edge treatment that is redefining how doctors treat lumbar spinal stenosis.

Discography

Endoscopic Decompression is the reduction of lumbar segmental pain by removal of causal pain sources whilst preserving motion at the segment by mobilization of the nerve from the annulus.

Endoscopic Decompression

An intercostal nerve block is an injection of medication that helps relieve pain in the chest area caused by a herpes zoster infection (or “shingles”) or a surgical incision.Intercostal nerves are located under each rib.

Intercostal Nerve Blocks

An intrathecal pump is used to relieve chronic pain. The medication is delivered directly to where the pain signals travel.

Intrathecal Pump

Facet thermal ablation is a minimally invasive surgical procedure is used to treat arthritis, injured or degenerative facet joints.

Facet Joint Thermal Ablation

The use of percutaneous procedures to decompress intervertebral discs dates back to the 1960’s. Early procedures showed conclusively that percutaneous disc decompression effectively relieves pain for appropriate patients.

Percutaneous Decompression

The Endoscopic Laser Facet Rhizotomy procedure is a true minimally invasive spine surgery used to deaden affected nerves causing chronic back and neck pain.

Endoscopic Facet Rhizotomy

A sympathetic nerve block involves injecting numbing medicine around the sympathetic nerves in the low back or neck.

Sympathetic Blocks

Medial branch nerves are small nerves that feed out from the facet joints in the spine and carry pain signals from the facet joints to the brain.

Medial Branch Blocks

The purpose of a sacroiliac joint injection is two-fold: to diagnose the source of a patient’s pain, and to provide therapeutic pain relief.

Sacroiliac Joint Injections

Epidural glucocorticoid injections are commonly given to patients with leg and/or back pain to relieve such pain and improve mobility without surgery.

Transforaminal Epidural Injections

An epidural injection delivers steroids into the epidural space around spinal nerve roots to relieve pain – back pain, leg pain, or other pain – caused by irritated spinal nerves.

Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections

The covering over the nerve roots in the spine is called the dura. The sleeve-like space surrounding the dura is called the epidural space. Nerves travel through the epidural space before they travel into your legs.

Caudal Epidural Steroid Injections

The stellate ganglion is part of the sympathetic nervous system that is located in your neck, on either side of your voice box.

Stellate Ganglion Blocks

Facet joints are small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion. The facet joints can become painful due to arthritis of the spine, a back injury, or mechanical stress to the back.

Facet Joint Injections

A spinal fusion is used to stop the motion of a painful vertebral segment, which decreases pain generated from the joint.

Minimally Invasive Spine Fusion

Endoscopic Foraminotomy is a minimally invasive spine surgery used to relieve pressure on spinal nerve roots, caused by compression from bone spurs, disc herniations, scar tissue, or excessive ligaments.

Endoscopic Foraminotomy

A lumbar micro endoscopic discectomy is a minimally invasive procedure performed through a tubular device and designed to relieve pain caused by herniated discs pressing on nerve roots.

Endoscopic Discectomy

Trigger point injections can be an effective treatment plan if you are experiencing chronic nerve pain or a nerve disorder. Nerve pain can come from a plethora of conditions such as sciatica, pinched nerves, degenerative disc disease, and more.

Trigger Point Injections

If you or a loved one is experiencing neck or back pain, there are ways you can treat your symptoms so you can live a comfortable day-to-day lifestyle.

Radiofrequency Ablation

Vertebroplasty is a safe, effective solution for osteoporosis-related spinal fractures. Less invasive than surgery, this outpatient treatment can provide long-term relief and allow patients to get back to doing the things they enjoy most.

Vertebroplasty

Osteoporosis is an age-related disease that causes bone structure to break down. It results in fractures, spinal deformities, and acute pain. If you or your loved one is struggling, kyphoplasty can help.

Kyphoplasty Surgery

At Integrated Medical Care, we offer electromyography testing so we can accurately diagnose the symptoms you’re experiencing. If you’re dealing with pain, tingling, or paralysis in your limbs, then EMG testing might be what you need.

Electromyography

Persistent pain can touch multiple areas of daily life, affecting your mobility, mental health, work, social calendar, and more. If you’re seeking a reprieve from Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS), several safe, effective procedures are available.

Myofascial Injections

Nerve blocks, also known as neural blockades, can be used as both a surgical and diagnostic tool. Nerve blocks stop the pain messages being sent from certain nerves that affect different regions of your body.

Nerve Conduction Studies

Nerve blocks, also known as neural blockades, can be used as both a surgical and diagnostic tool. Nerve blocks stop the pain messages being sent from certain nerves that affect different regions of your body.

Nerve Block

Spinal cord stimulators are a minimally invasive option for patients who have tried and failed other treatments or where surgery isn’t an option for them.

Spinal Cord Stimulators

Patients who wish to avoid the hospital stay and recovery time associated with surgery may benefit from a minimally invasive alternative. With the aid of imaging devices, these cutting-edge procedures can be performed through smaller incisions than traditional surgery. The result is a faster recovery and less risk of complications, allowing you to get back to your typical routines without the pain that’s been holding you back.

Minimally Invasive Treatments for Pain

Interventional spine medicine is a subtype of neurology that specializes in minimally invasive solutions to chronic pain. Your spine is responsible for passing signals to the brain, where they are received and may be processed as pain. An interventional procedure uses injections, blocks, and stimulators to alter how nerves function in the spinal cord. Thus, these pain signals are never processed or felt.

Interventional Spine Procedures

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