Interventional Pain Medicine
510 Superior, Suite 290, Newport Beach, CA 92663
- About
- Conditions Treated
- Treatment Options
- Meet the Team
Pain Conditions
Acute/Chronic Pain
Headache
Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN)
Often called tic douloureaux (French for “painful tic”), TN or TGN is an excruciatingly painful condition that affects one side of the face in the divisions of the fifth cranial (trigeminal) nerve.
Pain Conditions
Hoag’s team consists of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners who have specialized training in pain management. They treat various types of chronic pain in both an outpatient and inpatient setting including:
Back and Neck pain due to injuries or degenerative arthritis
Lumbar and Cervical Radiculopathy (aka “Sciatica”)
Post-laminectomy syndrome (aka “Failed Back Surgery Syndrome”)
Cancer pain
Complex regional pain syndrome (aka “Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy”)
Arthritis
Headaches
Orofacial Pain
Myofascial (Muscular) pain syndromes
Neuropathic pain including diabetic neuropathy and post shingle neuropathy
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis due to Ligamentum Flavum Hypertrophy
Coccydynia (tailbone pain)
Pelvic pain
Post traumatic or post surgical acute pain
If a full work-up of pain has not been performed, the team will refer for appropriate diagnostic procedures. The clinic has the capability to perform Nerve Conduction Studies/Electromyography to diagnose neuropathy or radiculopathy. Additionally there are diagnostic blocks which can help identify the source of pain in some cases. These include medial branch blocks and lateral branch blocks to diagnose facet and sacroiliac joint pain, respectively. Discography of the cervical or lumbar discs can be utilized to identify the most symptomatic disc and may help guide surgical intervention.
Hoag’s team employ a multi-disciplinary approach to complex chronic pain conditions since clinical studies have demonstrated that this approach is superior than any single modality.
