University Hospitals of Cleveland

Center for Interventional Pain Medicine

 

The Center for Interventional Pain Medicine at the University Hospitals of Cleveland uses the latest in advanced interventional therapies to treat all types of malignant and non-malignant pain syndromes. All our physicians are fellowship trained in interventional pain medicine or spine surgery and are full time faculty for the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Types of Pain Treated:

Mechanical back and neck pain

Myofascial Pain

Radiculopathy

Spinal Stenosis

Cancer Pain

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

 

Interventional Procedures Performed Include:

 

Spinal cord stimulation – trial and implantation
Intrathecal drug delivery systems – trial and implantation
Epidural steroid injections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral) – interlaminar and transformainal
Racz catheterization & epidural lysis of adhesions
Provocative discography
Medial branch blocks – cervical, thoracic, lumbar
Medial branch radiofrequency neurolysis – cervical, thoracic, lumbar
Sacro-iliac joint injections
Stellate ganglion blocks
Lumbar sympathetic blocks
Thoracic sympathetic chain blocks
Sphenopalatine ganglion blocks
Celiac plexus blocks
Hypogastric plexus blocks
 
Atalanto – axial blocks
Atlanto – occipital blocks
C2 Ganglion blocks
Greater and lesser occipital nerve blocks
Trigeminal and gasserian nerve blocks
Suprascapular nerve blocks
Intercstal nerve blocks
Intra-articular hip joint injections
Trochanteric bursa injections
Brachial plexus blocks (interscalene, axillary, supraclavicular)
Ilio-inguinal / ilio-hypogastric / genitofemoral blocks
Percutaneous vertebroplasty
Percutaneous disc decompression (DeKompressor and Nucleoplasty)
acupuncture
Trigger point injections

 

Contact Information

Main Campus Address:

11100 Euclid Ave.

Cleveland, OH 44106

216-844-3771

www.uhhs.com

Staff Physicians:

Mark Boswell, M.D., Ph.D.

Rainier Guiang, M.D.

Al-Amin Khalil, M.D.

E. Byron Marsolais, M.D., Ph.D.