Spine & Pain
Ridgeview’s team of Spine & Pain specialists provide patient‑centered care to diagnose and treat acute and chronic pain. We focus on restoring functional mobility and improving quality of life through comprehensive, individualized treatment plans with surgical and non-surgical options for care.
Your initial visit begins with a conversation to learn about your back pain, your daily challenges and your goals for feeling better. It also includes a thorough physical examination and review of previous treatments.
Using a multidisciplinary, evidence‑based approach, the Spine & Pain team collaborates to develop your personalized care plan which may include medication management, diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interventional procedures, minimally invasive surgery and/or a spine surgeon consultation. Surgical options for care may be recommended when less invasive methods have been exhausted.
Ridgeview is designated as a Blue Distinction® Center for Spine Surgery, recognizing excellence in quality and safety. This designation signifies that Ridgeview’s Spine & Pain program meets nationally established selection criteria by demonstrating expertise in delivering quality specialty care, safely and effectively. Learn more about this distinction.
Common Conditions Treated
Ridgeview Spine & Pain specialists help patients with a variety of conditions — always starting by understanding your experience and building a plan focused on your goals.
Neck and back pain
- Degenerative disc disease
- Facet arthropathy (arthritis)
- Herniated/bulged disc
- Kyphosis of spine
- Post-laminectomy syndrome (pain after surgery)
- Radiculopathy
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Scoliosis
- Spinal deformities
- Spinal instability
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spondylosis
- Stenosis
- Synovial cysts
- Vertebral compression fractures
Arm and leg pain (joint pain)
- Arthritis
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Elbow epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
- Large join pain (shoulder, hip, knee)
- Nerve compression syndromes
- Phantom limb syndrome
- Post-traumatic injuries
- Repetitive stress/overuse injuries
- Soft-tissue restrictions and/or scar tissue to trauma
- Tendonitis/bursitis (hip/shoulder pain)
Chest wall, abdominal, pelvic and groin pain
- Chronic abdominal pain
- Endometriosis pain
- Female pelvic floor pain
- Inguinal hernia pain
- Intercostal neuralgia (arthritis, impingement, inflammation, trauma)
- Irritable bowel syndrome pain (celiacs disease)
- Myofascial pain
- Post-herpetic neuralgia (shingles)
- Prostatitis (male pelvic pain)
Chronic pain conditions
- Cancer pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches
- Migraines
- Muscular scoliosis associated pain
- Neuralgia
- Neuropathy (chemo induced, diabetic, hereditary, idiopathic, peripheral, polyneuropathy)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
Interventional Procedures
Ridgeview’s spine and pain team also use minimally invasive, image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat several conditions as an alternative to surgery, reducing pain and providing faster recovery times.
Spinal injections
- Epidural steroid injections
- Blood patch
Lumbar decompression
Vertebral augmentation
- Kyphoplasty
- Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD)
Nerve ablations
- Facet joint injections
- Genicular nerve blocks
- Intracept
- Medial branch blocks
- Radiofrequency ablation
Musculoskeletal
- Bursa injections
- Costochondral injections
- Intraarticular joint injections (shoulder, hip, knee)
- Sacroiliac joint injection
- Trigger point injections
Nerve injections/nerve root blocks
- Abdominal cutaneous nerve block
- Auriculotemporal nerve block
- Brachial plexus nerve block
- Celiac plexus nerve block
- Genicular nerve block
- Hypogastric plexus nerve block
- Ilioinguinal nerve block
- Intercostal nerve block
- Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve block
- Lumbar sympathetic nerve block
- Occipital nerve block
- Pudendal nerve block
- Stellate ganglion nerve block
- Supraorbital nerve block
- Trigeminal nerve block
Neuromodulation
- Peripheral nerve stimulator (Sprint)
- Peripheral nerve stimulator (Nalu)
- Spinal cord stimulators
Surgical procedures
- Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF)
- Anterior lumbar interbody spinal fusion (ALIF)
- Kyphoplasty
- Laminectomy
- Microdiscectomy
- Posterior spinal fusion
- Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF)
Medication Management
Ridgeview’s Spine & Pain team offers medication management as an option for the treatment of chronic pain, emphasizing non-opioid treatment options, carefully limiting opioid use to situations where it is clinically necessary. At this time, suboxone and methadone are not prescribed or managed within our practice.
