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Back Pain FAQs: Seeking Treatment for Your Back & Neck Pain

When should you seek a medical opinion and what type of doctor should you see?

If your experiencing pain in the spine region or pain radiating to arms or the legs, numbness or weakness you should seek a spine specialist to evaluate and treat your condition. Depending on the severity of your symptoms, interventional pain specialists with a background focusing on the spine or a spine surgeon can determine what are the necessary steps needed to help diagnose and alleviate your symptoms.

What is an interventional pain specialist?

Most commonly an interventional pain specialist has a Physical Medicine and Rehab or Anesthesia residency background and then goes on to further training in an accredited fellowship pain medicine program.The additional training of at least one year focuses on pain related conditions and includes properly learning interventional procedures under experienced guidance to offer patients another option in treating painful conditions. Procedures can include epidural, facet, sacroiliac injections, radiofrequency ablation for facet pain, sympathetic blocks, spinal cord/ peripheral nerve stimulators.