We provide comprehensive chronic and acute pain management care. Chronic pain is destructive and can potentially ruin any chance for an individual to achieve a normal quality of life. The treatment of chronic pain requires serious attention by a qualified expert specializing in pain management. Dr. Chen is a leading authority and expert in the treatment of both acute and chronic pain.
Our Surgery Center for Pain Intervention is fully accredited by the AAAHC and certified by Medicare. This accreditation gives us the highest level of certification in
providing Outpatient Pain injection.
PHYSICIANS:
Dr. Lido Chen, M.D. is a board certified specialist in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. As an expert in the field of pain management, Dr. Chen has been a guest speaker at professional conferences, and has also served as an associate professor at UCI. Dr. Chen has been in private practice since 1991.
Dr Lisa Pitino, D.O. is a board certified specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and ACGME Fellowship trained in Pain Management. She practices comprehensive rehabilitation and pain management with a focus on the spine and musculoskeletal system. She has been in private practice since 2008
Our facility and its personnel desire to provide to all the patients treated here the highest level of medical care possible in the safest environment achievable. Our personnel will continually seek to improve the standards of care, safety, and comfort for all patients treated in this facility.
FACET JOINT INJECTION: Facet Joints are located in the spine from the neck down to the lower back. Facet injection with novocaine and/or cortisone is performed under fluoroscopy guidance to reduce arthritis pain of neck and back at outpatient surgery center conveniently located adjacent or close to our office. These injections carry minimal risk of nerve damage.
OCCIPITAL NERVE BLOCK: is for the treatment of headache by using novocaine or cortisone or neurochemical. RFTC or cryneurolysis is also an option to reduce occipital nerve pain. This nerve block is done either at office setting or at outpatient surgery center conveniently located adjacent or close to our office depending on your insurance coverage.
TRANSFORAMINAL EPIDURAL INJECTION: This injection is done specifically to identify and/or treat the nerve that is causing pain by using novocaine or cortisone. It is done under fluoroscopy's guidance at the outpatient surgery center conveniently located adjacent or close to our office. More than 10,000 of these have been done by Dr. Chen. There has been not a single case of nerve or spinal cord damage.
