Services and Treatments

Our Goal

We offer treatment and management for a wide range of musculoskeletal, spine, sports, and pain conditions. Our approach is geared to help you recover, resolve or manage your specific medical problem. The treatment plan is developed specifically for you, with healing as the ultimate goal. As Physiatrists, a return to a functional life is what we try to accomplish with a comprehensive, biopsychosocial approach. After a thorough consultation, evaluation, and diagnosis, your treatment plan is developed. We utilize many different approaches to help you get better including referring you for complementary and alternative treatments such as acupuncture or massage therapy. In certain conditions, interventional techniques such as an epidural injection, sacroiliac or facet joint injection or trigger point injection is needed. There are conditions that are painful and appropriate medications can be prescribed to help you live your life with less pain.

CONDITIONS TREATED

• Work Injuries- many different conditions-

Neck (Cervical, mid back (thoracic) and low back pain

•Degenerative disc disease

•Facet joint pain

•Spinal Stenosis

•Sciatica

•Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain

•Chronic pain

•Acute pain

•Cancer pain

•Abdominal pain

•Pelvic pain

•Shoulder pain

•Knee pain

•Hip pain

•Arthritis

•Joint Pain

•Diabetic Neuropathy

•Pain Medication, Management/Monitoring

•Neuropathic or nerve pain

•Carpal tunnel syndrome

•Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

•Fibromyalgia

•Myofascial Pain

•Acute musculoskeletal injuries

•Headaches

INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES

•Cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine injections

•Transforaminal epidural steroid injections

•Facet joint blocks

•Medial Branch blocks

•Sympathetic nerve blocks

•Stellate Ganglion blocks

•Radiofrequency nerve ablations

•Joint and muscle/tendon injections

•Myofascial trigger point injections

•Botulinum toxin injections

•Regenerative Medicine procedures including Prolotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)

Workers’ Compensation

Specialty Clinic

Aloha Pain Sports & Spine Medicine offers a Workers’ Compensation Specialty Clinic to assist injured workers in their medical recovery. The specialty clinic offers a fast track to employers, insurance companies and the injured worker. We provide appointments as soon as possible for all new injuries. A board-certified physician sees the injured worker each time providing a comprehensive medical treatment plan to assist them in healing and returning to work.

Plan of Action

Our comprehensive plans include a clear diagnosis, goals of treatments and effective communication with the patient and insurers. Board certified physicians with experience and expertise provide cost effective medical care, and coordinate with adjustors and nurse case manager services.We accept new injuries and open workers’ compensation claims. We also offer consultations, manage pain conditions, monitor opioid use and provide interventional treatments as needed.

What Do I Do Now?

In Hawaii, injured workers can choose their doctor. Our physicians have written their own guide to Hawaii’s Workers’ Compensation this will help you navigate the injured worker process. For more information regarding a Workers’ Compensation injury read, What Do I Do Now? An Injured Worker's Guide to Hawaii's Workers' Compensation Insurance.

PAIN MEDICINE

What is it?

Pain Medicine is a specialty field of medicine. Physicians who are board certified by the American Board of Medical Specialties in Pain Medicine have completed extensive training in pain conditions and treatments. Pain Medicine requires training after completion of a one year medical internship and three years of a residency program. Fellowship training is usually one or two years after residency. Certain medical fields include pain medicine training during their residency programs. Common fields which incorporate this training include Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Anesthesiology, Sports Medicine and Rheumatology, Neurology, Palliative Care, and Oncology. If you are a physician or healthcare affiliate and need us to see a patient, provide a consult, evaluation or help manage a patient who has a pain condition, please let us know .

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Physiatry) is a medical specialty.

It is the art of practicing physical aspects of treatment. It is most widely known as the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The medical specialty of modern-day Physiatry comprises the related disciplines of Physical Medicine which includes: Musculoskeletal, Sports and Pain Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine and Electromyography. Rehabilitation involves the treatment of medical conditions of a patient to optimal physical, psychological and social functioning. The goal is to help a person return to their previous level of functioning in life

PM&R physicians, also known as physiatrists, treat a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons. PM&R physicians evaluate and treat injuries, illnesses, and disability and are experts in designing comprehensive, patient-centered treatment plans. Physiatrists utilize cutting edge as well as time tested treatments to maximize function and quality of life.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has various areas of subspecialty including Musculoskeletal Medicine, Spinal Disorders, Brain Injury Medicine, Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Neuromuscular Medicine, Pain Medicine, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, Treatments to help with injured limbs, and Sports Medicine.

PM&R arguably began around World War II after soldiers returned from war with injury or disability. Physician pioneers in the medical field noticed that early physical medical therapies and treatments that were aimed at restoring function proved to be much more effective for patients than the passive treatments of that time. Over the years, medical treatments have evolved to the more well known therapies of today. However, the primary goal of returning a patient to a functional status remains unchanged.