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Archive > October, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 10

Kick Your Pain Services Up a Notch

These advanced procedures will take your facility beyond the 15-minute, inspect-and-inject procedures.

John Dombrowski, MD, PC

Basic pain management procedures are in demand, profitable and comparatively easy to perform, making them popular additions to many surgical facilities' offerings. If your facility is willing to take a step further, however, advanced methods for treating chronic pain are perhaps the specialty's best kept secret, even though the technology's been around for years. They're not 15-minute, inspect-and-inject procedures, but these services - radiofrequency nerve ablation, discography, percutaneous discectomy and spinal cord stimulator implantation - can provide relief for patients as well as volume for your pain physicians.

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