Interventional Pain Management
Dr. Javier Sanchez humbly describes his medical training as “honorable,” referring to the M.D. earned from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, an anesthesiology residency at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and an impressive tri-institutional pain fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell’s Hospital for Special Surgery and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. With prestigious credentials, years of expertise in complex pain issues and a comforting bedside manner, Dr. Sanchez has opened the doors to his new practice, Dero Pain Specialists, where patients find dedicated, personalized pain management care when they need it most.
Q: What is your approach to treating pain?
A: It’s very personalized and not at all algorithmic. I listen to what patients have to say because everyone’s pain affects them differently. My goal is to first understand the diagnosis or root cause of the pain and how that pain interferes with the patient’s life, and then based on those findings, we develop a treatment plan.
Q: What kind of painful conditions do you treat?
A: Through minimally invasive interventions, I treat many types of pain syndromes that can occur in the body including neuropathy, arthritis, joint pain, facial pain, pelvic pain, spine and disc pain. In many cases, pain can be treated by either burning a nerve or stimulating that nerve to hide the pain which provides relief for many conditions.
Q: How is interventional pain management different from the tainted version of pain management “pill mills?”
A: Interventional pain management is a newer field of medicine and is rapidly evolving. We near-never prescribe opioids. Rather, we offer multi-modal interventions and minimally-invasive procedural treatment options. The field is ideal for patients who are not candidates for high-risk procedures or have been told there is no solution for their pain. Our treatments have very few side effects and much better results than opioids which the body will simply get used to and will stop working after some time.
Dero Pain Specialists
1000 NW 9th Ct., Ste. 103, Boca Raton, FL 33487
561-221-2236
Deropain.com
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