INTERVENTIONAL PAIN CENTER
Department of Anesthesiology
Pain Conditions Diagnosed and Treated
The Interventional Pain Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center believes in treating each patient individually,
using the latest equipment and various innovative approaches to first diagnose, and then treat the pain.
Whatever the source of your pain you can benefit from visiting the Interventional Pain Center, even if you
suffer from
 Back and neck pain, including herniated discs, spinal stenosis, tumors
 Pain still persisting after one or multiple back surgeries (so called “Failed Back Surgery
Syndrome”)
 Chronic abdominal and Pelvic pain
 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (also called RSD or Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy)
 Muscle and joint pain
 Disorders of the nervous system including shingles and trigeminal neuralgia
 Cancer pain
 Sickle cell anemia
 Intractable spasticity and pain associated with multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injuries
 Pain associated with vertebral compression fractures due to osteoporosis or tumors
 Work injury
 Facet pain syndrome
 Peripheral neuropathy
 Sacroiliac pain syndrome
 Pain in the joints (knee pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain)
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Behaior pain therapies
Chronic pain management
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar facet blocks and nerve root blocks
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar epidural injections
Sacroiliac joint blocks
Transforaminal nerve blocks
Destruction of nerves using heat (Radiofrequency denervation)
Celiac plexus blocks and neurolysis
Splanchnic nerve blocks and neurolysis
Intercostal nerve blocks and neurolysis
Sympathetic blocks (including stellate ganglion blocks, ganglion impar blocks, lumbar
sympathetic blocks, superior hypogastric plexus nerve blocks)
Lumbar discograms to evaluate disc related tear or bulges
Percutaneous disc procedures like Decompressor®, nucleoplasty
Percutaneous repair of disc “tears” with the IDET (Intradiscal Electrothermal therapy)
Spinal cord stimulation
Intrathecal pumps (baclofen or morphine pumps)
Repair of vertebral fractures by injection of bone cement (vertebroplasty)
Epidural Scar tissue removal by the Racz ® procedure
Other procedures offered include trigger point injections, peripheral nerve blocks (ilioinguinal
nerve blocks, femoral nerve blocks etc), knee injections (Synvisc for osteoarthritic knees),
piriformis muscle injection, pain pump refills, epidural blood patches for spinal headaches, pulsed
radiofrequency procedures