Procedures and Specialized Treatments
The UC Davis Pain Management Clinic offers a wide range of treatments for chronic pain, including oral medications, injections, minimally invasive procedures, more complex surgical treatments when advisable, and alternative therapies. Our goal is to help diminish your chronic pain using the means that you find most comfortable and most effective.
Our Specialized Treatments
We offer a variety of advanced treatments to help manage and relieve pain, using the latest techniques tailored to each patient’s needs.
- Injections for musculoskeletal pain
- Fluoroscopy-guided
- Ultrasound-guided
- Landmark-guided
- Trigger point injections
- Joint injections for shoulders, hips and knees
- Bursa injections to reduce bursitis pain
- Viscosupplementation to treat arthritis
- Sympathetic nerve blocks
- Acupuncture
- Basivertebral nerve ablation (which involves the use of radio frequency energy to destroy nerves that have grown into the vertebral body). Ablation effectively suspends communication from the painful vertebral body to the spinal cord and brain.
- Knee and hip ablation for osteoarthritis
- Behavioral medicine
- Dorsal root ganglion stimulation
- Interspinous spacer treatments (to reduce pressure on spinal nerves from lumbar stenosis)
- Intrathecal therapy (pain pump implantation)
- Low back pain interventional treatments
- Multifidus stimulation — Reactiv8 (electrical simulation for nerves of the lower portion of the spine)
- Peripheral nerve stimulation
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Sacroiliac joint fusion
- Minimally invasive posterior image-guided lumbar decompression — MILD procedure
- Kyphoplasty and vertebral body augmentation post-compression fracture
- Peripheral nerve blocks and stimulation for chronic pain and entrapment syndromes
- Sacroiliac joint fusion to improve stability in the lower back