• Pain Management

Pain Management

You don’t have to live with the pain. Chronic neck and back pain used to be something patients simply had to learn to live with. Not so anymore. In recent years, new, state-of-the-art pain management treatments provide significant relief – and improve lives.

That’s the mission of our Pain Management Division. Offering the latest in minimally invasive techniques, Dr. Adam Hammer, Medical Director, and Dr. Daniel Yadegar, both board-certified and fellowship trained in pain management, help patients return to their everyday activities quickly and without heavy reliance on pain medications.

Our new Merrick office at 1728 Sunrise Highway features an accredited state-of-the-art digital fluoroscopy suite where our pain management doctors specifically target and precisely deliver potent medications to help relieve a patient's back and neck pain. Available in very few group practices today, this unique in-house service is a benefit and convenience to the patient, eliminating the need to make multiple visits to a hospital or ambulatory surgical center to receive pain management treatment.

We emphasize pain management and use such sophisticated interventional techniques as:

• Epidural steroid injections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal)
• Facet injections and medial branch blocks (cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
• Provocative discography
• Sacroiliac, hip, knee and other joint and bursa injections
• Botox and myobloc injections for pain
• Radiofrequency denervation
• Sympathetic blocks (stellate and lumbar)
• Peripheral nerve blocks
• Epidural lysis of adhesions
• Spinal cord stimulations

These techniques, combined with physical rehabilitation, occupational therapy, lifestyle modification as well as acupuncture and electromyography, result in a tailored treatment plan to help you manage your pain – and stop your pain from managing you.