Dr. Mark Hackbarth and Dr. Robert Sutherland of Interventional Spine Associates in Tyler, Texas, are Board Certified Pain Management anesthesiologists who offer a variety of methods to diagnose and treat problems such as chronic back pain that is unresponsive to rest, medication, physical therapy or manipulation. Pain Management physicians can also treat neuropathic pain such as phantom limb, diabetic neuropathy, chest wall, urologic pain and headaches as well.

Our Physicians offer a number of interventions including Transforaminal Nerve Block for thoracic and cervical nerve root irritation, and Radiological Frequency Neuroablation for facet complaints. Our practice also includes diagnostic discography and various interventions that disrupt the nerves in painful discs such as IDET, Nucleoplasty and Disktrode.

For the patient with chronic pain that hasn’t responded to surgery or the above therapies (from 1–10% of the average back pain population), there now is more hope for functional recovery. Our article on Spinal Cord Stimulation explains how this may be the answer for certain select patients.