Recent content by Taus

One needle per nerve Lesion 1 tight to sap/tp junction, medial/lateral Retract, reposition slightly up base of sap ceph/caudal for lesion 2 For cervical I retract slightly and reposition ceph/caudal on lateral pillar for each respective target zone. At least one needle width between 2nd burn...

3 days week of 21-23 clinic/day for me. About 50:50 new vs follow-up. 8a-5:30p including all dictations, messages, procedure prep, etc. No scribe, no midlevel. 2 days/week of office fluoro 25-30 procedure/day. Mixture of my own patients, partners who don’t do cervicals/rfa and direct esi from...

Reasonable # patients per day…..I think it depends upon % new consult vs follow-ups and somewhat of practice setting, I.e. primarily procedural, med management, versus “comprehensive pain“. Straightforward problems vs more complex chronic pain issues.

Depends on if you think the extra cost is worth the time savings on the case. If you get a big enough lesion with a perpendicular approach, single lesion (not certain on that), you can cut the procedure time way down compared to doing traditional parallel placement with two 18g lesions. What...

Potentially, but worth trying before sending to surgeon imho. Already did interlam w depo.

T1-2 tfesi. foraminal hnp. Min relief with interlam. Mapped path/angle carefully on mri to avoid ptx…. Love my new c arm…. Oec 9900

Phew…. Sounds exhausting. Do you have a fluffer to take care of all the pre/post bs to allow you to go room to room and just do procedures most of day? Ie not having to see patients in pre-op, have them sign consent, mark side, computer orders pre, dictate and dispo stuff after? I do 30/day in...

Unlikely to top busy total joint and spine docs…. All else is fair game and doable.

If I can stick a needle 100% in the joint under fluoro on AP, oblique, lateral, and not get an clearcut 100% arthrograms with contrast every time…… Ultrasound can shove it That said, does it make a difference in clinical outcome intra versus peri….?

Not as bad as sij

Yep, looks same

All joking aside…. Prone approach is very easy on these patients. Target same as in AP. Lateral head/neck junction. Granted, I send most hips to sports med to do under ultrasound and my practice is 99% spine. You lose money every time you displace a spine injection from your schedule if...

I’d rather press down to hub a 7 inch posteriorly than retract a pannus and wipe away cottage cheese.