Pain Treatment In Rancho Mirage / Palm Desert Area
Solutions to get you back to living your life.
Once the source of your pain is identified, our specialists will work with you to choose the treatment that will provide you the best balance of immediate and lasting relief with minimal side effects. At The Offices of Roland Reinhart, M.D., we consider the whole person before deciding on the best course of action. What kind of lifestyle would you lead if you were not hindered by pain? What are your particular sensitivities? What other medical conditions do you have, and are you undergoing treatment for those?
About the LinQ™ SI Joint Stabilization System
The LinQ™ SI Joint Stabilization System provides SI joint dysfunction patients with a minimally invasive solution to combat pain. After a thorough diagnostic process, physicians can help alleviate, and in many cases, eliminate chronic pain by placing a single LinQ™ allograft into the SI joint.
This single implant helps patients immediately regain joint stability – and with its patented large graft window and drill-less technology, the LinQ™ SI Joint Stabilization System helps create an ideal environment for long-term fusion.
The entire procedure is done through a small incision on the patient’s back. Patients leave the hospital or surgery center the same day, shortly after surgery and can usually resume daily living activities within a couple of weeks, depending on how well they are healing and based on their physician’s orders.
Benefits of the LinQ™ Procedure
The LinQ™ procedure offers several benefits compared to traditional SI joint surgery:
• Posterior approach away from nerves and large blood vessels
• Minimally invasive
• No metal implanted
• Fast recovery time
• Proven effective results
Potential Candidates for the LinQ™ Procedure
The LinQ™ procedure offers several benefits compared to traditional SI joint surgery:
• Low Back, Hip or Leg Pain
• Postpartum Pain
• Inability to sit for long periods of time due to pain
• Failed previous treatments or interventional therapies.
PainTEQ Website
www.painteq.com
Procedure Video
How The LinQ™ SI Joint Stabilization System Works | PainTEQ on Vimeo
Patient Testimonials
How LinQ Treated Brian’s Low Back Pain | PainTEQ on Vimeo
Everett Gets His Life Back From SI Joint Pain | PainTEQ on Vimeo
LinQ Relieves Iva’s SI Joint Pain | PainTEQ on Vimeo
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This procedure uses specific wavelengths of light to reduce pain, swelling, and spasms in the affected area. A small, hand-held device rests on the skin for a few minutes as the laser light penetrates to the source of pain. The laser light stimulates the body’s healing ability and reduces pain.
TPI is a procedure used to treat painful areas of muscle that contain trigger points, or knots of muscle that form when muscles do not relax or spasm. Trigger points may irritate the nerves around them and cause referred pain, or pain that is felt in another part of the body. A long-acting steroid is injected, along with a local anesthetic, into the affected muscle group. The steroid helps to provide long-term reduction of inflammation and pain.
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Decreases pain and inflammation that occurs in joints such as hips, knees, and shoulders. A local anesthetic numbs the area while the long-acting steroid reduces inflammation.
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Epidural injections go into the space surrounding the spine. There are four types of epidural steroid injections, defined by the location on the spine: lumbar, thoracic, cervical and caudal. Epidural injections can be used to treat a variety of pain conditions, since they work to reduce inflammation. This relieves conditions like pinched or irritated nerves and bulging disks.
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Regenerative medicine seeks to replace tissue or organs that have been damaged by disease, trauma, or congenital issues, vs. the current clinical strategy that focuses primarily on treating the symptoms. The tools used to realize these outcomes are tissue engineering, cellular therapies, and medical devices. Methods include Protein Rich Plasma, Stem Cell Therapy, and Hyaluronic Acid Injections.
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RFA uses heat energy to prevent nerves in the base of the spine from sending pain signals to the brain. The heat destroys the nerve fibers, effectively turning off their ability to send pain signals. Using imaging scans as a guide, your doctor will gently insert a probe into the nerve areas causing you pain. Once the probe is in place, it’s connected to a radiofrequency generator, which creates a high-frequency current that generates enough targeted heat to relieve pain. The procedure is minimally invasive, the risk of complication during or after the procedure is relatively low. The recovery time is also significantly reduced.
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When you feel chronic pain, it is because your nerves are sending pain signals to your brain. Spinal Cord Stimulation works to reduce larger areas of pain by altering the pain signals as they travel to the brain. Pain signals travel up the spinal cord to the brain. A generator, similar to a cardiac pacemaker, sends stimulation pulses to a thin wire called a lead. The lead delivers these pulses to nerves along the spinal cord. The pulses modify the pain signals and your emotional reaction to chronic pain as they travel to different parts of the brain. The pulses change the way your body perceives pain — reducing the pain you feel.
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DRG Stimulation is similar to Spinal Cord Stimulation, but works by stimulating dorsal root ganglia (DRGs). These are structures along the spinal column made up of densely populated sensory nerves, and they act like traffic lights, regulating signals and sensations that travel through nerve fibers along the spinal column to the brain. DRG Stimulation offers selective targeting of areas currently not as easily treated by traditional spinal cord stimulation, including the groin, hip, knee, lower leg and feet.
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This tiny device is implanted under a patient’s skin and can be programmed to deliver precise doses of medication on a prescribed schedule, to ensure the patient gets continual pain relief with the lowest dosage of medicine possible. The infusion pump can be programmed to deliver a medication directly into the spinal space nearest the source of pain that will relax muscles and prevent spasms.
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mild® is a safe procedure that can help patients diagnosed with lumbar spinal stenosis stand longer and walk farther with less pain.1 It is a short, outpatient procedure, performed through a very small incision that will use an imaging machine and specialized tools to remove small pieces of bone and excess ligament tissue through a tiny incision in your back. Removing these elements restores space in the spinal canal and decreases the compression of the nerves, which reduces pain and restores mobility.
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The Vertiflex Procedure is a simple and safe, minimally invasive procedure, clinically proven for effective long-term relief from the symptoms associated with lumbar spinal stenosis. This outpatient procedure can be done with light anesthesia or while you remain awake and has minimal recovery time. The procedure is completely reversible and doesn’t disrupt any bone or tissue, setting the standard of care for LSS for many physicians across the U.S
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