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Dr. Jaffe is a versatile physician that can treat a wide variety of spine and musculoskeletal issues. His personal philosophy that good care starts with the correct diagnosis. He utilizes history, physical examination, and independent interpretation of imaging to see the big picture. Dr. Jaffe will review all the treatment options with the patients and work with them to develop an individualized action plan. He helps coach patients through therapeutic exercise, lifestyle modifications, and can perform many pain alleviating procedures.
These injections are designed to deliver corticosteroids and anesthetic medications to decrease inflammation of spinal nerves. Spinal nerves may radiate pain down the legs or the arms, depending on which nerve is irritated. Indications for the procedure include nerve pain from disc herniations and spinal stenosis.
These needle are positioned adjacent to small sensory nerves to create a heat lesion. Once the nerve has been heated, it becomes unable to transmit pain signals, thus alleviating pain. This procedure is most often utilized to treat back or neck pain that may arise from arthritic or painful joints in the spine called facet joints. It can also be used to treat other areas of the body such as the knees.
These procedures utilize sound waves to steer needles into various places in the body to maximize the therapeutic response. Target locations include large joints (knee or shoulder), small joints (wrist or hands), into tendon sheath, adjacent to tendons or nerves, or into tendons. Different medications may be injected including corticosteroids (“cortisone” or “steroid”), anesthetic medicines, platelet rich plasma, or viscosupplementation (a protein gel that is used to treat knee arthritis).
Neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, mid back, low back, hips, knees and ankles.
Herniated disc, spinal stenosis, joint pain, joint osteoarthritis, tendinitis, trigger fingers, carpal tunnel syndrome, bursitis, tennis elbow and many more.
