HIP, LEG & KNEE

Conditions

Sacroiliac Joint Pain

Your sacroiliac joints (we call them the “SI” joints) are the places where your hips meet your spine. These joints don’t have a lot of flexibility, but they do move slightly as you move your body. If SI joints become damaged or diseased, it can be painful. SI joints hurt when the tiny nerves in the joints become irritated, due to injury or arthritis, or if the supporting ligaments become irritated. SI joint pain begins in the low back and buttocks and can radiate into the hip, groin and thigh on one or both sides of the body. A variety of treatment options are available for your hip, leg and knee.

Procedures

Genicular Nerve Ablation (RF Neurotomy) | Knee

During this outpatient procedure, your physician uses a radiofrequency device to heat up and disrupt the genicular nerves in your knee. These are the sensory nerves that transmit pain signals from the knee to the brain. Disrupting these pathways can provide long-term relief from knee pain.

HYALGAN® Injection for Osteoarthritis | Knee

This minimally invasive, image-guided injection delivers a medicine called HYALGAN directly into your knee joint to relieve pain associated with osteoarthritis.

Radiofrequency Ablation of the Genicular Nerves | Knee

This minimally invasive procedure heats the tissue and nerve to stop the pain signal.

Joint Injection | Hip

This minimally invasive, outpatient injection relieves hip, leg or buttock pain caused by arthritis or other damage to the hip joint.

Lumbar Sympathetic Block | Hip, Leg & Low Back

This image-guided injection numbs branches of nerves in your lower back. It helps doctors find and treat a number of problems linked to these nerves, such as reducing inflammation and pain in the low back, hips and legs. Usually, a series of injections is needed.

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection | Leg & Low Back

This procedure involves the injection of a steroid-anesthetic medication that can reduce swelling and inflammation of irritated spinal nerves. This minimally invasive outpatient procedure is performed to relieve pain that radiates from the low back to the legs. The injection takes only a few minutes to complete. Some patients may only need one injection; other patients may require a series of injections to benefit.

Piriformis Injection for Sciatic Pain | Hip & Leg

This image-guided injection helps your doctor diagnose and relieve the pain of piriformis syndrome, an irritation of the sciatic nerve caused by a contraction of the piriformis muscle in the buttocks, which can cause hip pain and leg pain.

Radiofrequency Neurotomy of the Lumbar Facets | Hip, Leg & Low Back

During this minimally invasive procedure, the physician uses heat from radio waves to treat painful facet joints in your lower back, which can also cause pain in the hips and legs. Also called radiofrequency rhizotomy, this procedure can treat pain that doesn’t respond to medications or to physical therapy.

Regenerative Medicine | Hip, Leg & Knee

If you suffer from joint, tendon, ligament, back, neck or pelvic pain, you may be a candidate for regenerative medicine. Regenerative medicine is an exciting scientific and medical discipline that focuses on tapping into the capacity of the body to restore the functioning of damaged cells, tissues and organs.

Steroid Injection | Knee

This minimally invasive, image-guided outpatient procedure may provide relief for patients with arthritis of the knee. The technique allows the physician to inject an inflammation-reducing steroid with maximum accuracy.

Viscosupplementation for Arthritis | Knee

This is an image-guided injection of medicine into the knee joint that lubricates your knee so that the bones can glide smoothly. This procedure may help lessen the pain of arthritis.

Peripheral Nerve Stimulation | Hip, Leg & Knee

This is a novel approach to ongoing hip, leg and knee pain. A small lead is placed directly overlying the nerve through an image-guided outpatient procedure. A small generator is then worn which powers the device and interrupts the pain signals from the area.