Interventional Pain Center

Our Services

The Interventional Pain Center at Rhode Island Hospital offers resources for nonoperative interventional spine disorder evaluation and management. Our services include:

Common Diagnoses

Lumbar, thoracic and cervical axial pain—zygapophyseal (facet) joint arthropathy and degenerative disk disease
Lumbar, thoracic and cervical radicular pain—degenerative disk disease, foraminal and central stentosis
Occipital neuralgia
Hip, knee and shoulder pain—arthritis/bursitis
Chest wall pain—intercostal neuralgia, costochondritis
Coccygeal pain
Sacroiliac pain

Diagnostic Procedures

Medical branch blocks/facet joint injections
(lumbar, thoracic and cervical)
Proactive discography
Bursal injections
Selective nerve root injections
Sacroiliac joint injections
Major joint injections (hip, knee and shoulder)
Gasserian and trigeminal branch injections

Therapeutic Procedures

Epidural steroid injections (lumbar, thoracic, cervical, transforaminal, interlaminar and caudal)
Medical branch radiofrequency treatment
Sacroiliac joint steroid injections
Sacroiliac joint radiofrequency treatment
IDET (Intradiscal Electro-Thermal Annuloplasty)
Nucleoplasty (percutaneous disc decompression)
Major joint injections (limited steroid or synvisc)
Occipital nerve/C2 injections
Gasserian Trigeminal branch injections
Gasserian Trigeminal branch radiofrequency treatment
Bursal injections
Trigger point/botox injections
Coccygeal injections

All spine procedures are performed under a fluoroscopic guidance with digital subtraction angiographic assistance where appropriate.

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