Spinal Pain Mapping

Advanced diagnostic techniques — selective nerve root blocks, medial branch blocks, discography, and sympathetic blocks — to pinpoint the source of back pain when imaging is inconclusive.

Interventional Spine and Pain provides the most advanced diagnostic techniques for back pain through comprehensive physical examination and spinal pain mapping procedures. When physical examination or imaging studies fail to determine the source of pain, our physicians use spinal pain mapping techniques — selective nerve root blocks, medial branch nerve blocks of the facet joints, sacroiliac joint injection, peripheral nerve blocks, provocative discography, and sympathetic blocks — to diagnose low back pain of undetermined etiology.