Distinguishing Factors
- Fellowship-trained physiatry physicians provide patients with the highest level of evaluation and nonsurgical management. These physicians often perform spine injections or epidural injections as part of a personalized treatment plan and direct the physical therapy rehabilitation plan.
- Anesthesia physicians have pain management fellowship training to provide patients with the safest and most effective pain relief options. When appropriate, these physicians will perform the following procedures as part of a comprehensive spine pain management strategy: neck injections, spinal injections, epidural injections, nerve ablations.
- Behavioral health therapists help patients with chronic spine pain to focus on improving their ability to manage and cope with chronic pain.
- Spine therapists have advanced training in specialized rehabilitation protocols in the following.
- McKenzie method of mechanical diagnosis and therapy
- Schroth method for scoliosis
- Graston soft tissue technique
- Myofascial decompression
- Neurosurgical and orthopedic spine surgeons who provide evaluation and management of degenerative, neoplastic, traumatic, deformity, revision, and congenital spinal disorders.