Minnesota Interventional Pain Associates will cease to exist on 4-16-2010
Minnesota
Interventional
Pain
Associates
12203 Aberdeen St NE, Suite 100
Blaine Minnesota 55449
763-390-1279
Questions or comments? Email us at mipainfo@aol.com
Minnesota Interventional Pain Associates (MIPA), staffed by Mark Janiga, M.D., D.A.B.P.M.(Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine), DABA (Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology) is dedicated to help those suffering from chronic pain to return to a life as free from pain as much as the ever- changing, dynamic field of interventional pain management currently affords.
MIPA offers a complete range of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic options. An accurate diagnosis is the foundation for successful treatment. An initial evaluation focuses on identifying the specific structures (nerves, disks, spinal joints or other structures) involved in the generation of pain. The diagnostic, or testing, process includes a detailed clinical evaluation. Once the diagnosis is made, and if appropriate, the most advanced evidence-based therapeutic interventions are offered.
One of the most exciting interventional techniques is Prolotherapy. This methodology has been around since the 1950's but only recently has it gained tremendous popularity. Dr. Janiga is an expert prolotherapist and has treated hundreds of patients who were not able to be helped by other physicians. Dr. Janiga is a fellowship trained expert in low-back, mid-back, and neck pain anatomy and physiology which enables him the ability to accurately diagnose and treat the specific causes of pain.
Research plainly shows that the structural source of pain is commonly undetectable with MRI, CT, EMG, or standard X-rays. Even more confusing are abnormalities routinely demonstrated by X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs are present in the majority of people who have no pain.
Patients are often told they have degenerative disc disease (arthritis) as a cause for their back or neck pain, a diagnosis strictly based on their MRI or X-rays findings. In general, this is a premature assumption which numerous studies clearly demonstrate is wrong.
Meticulous, precise, diagnostic tests, are performed under x-ray guidance to determine if these radiologic (XRAY, MRI, CT) abnormalities, like discs bulges, herniations, or protrusions, are the structural cause for a patient’s pain.
