The starting point for every patient at Florida Orthopedic & Spine Institute is an accurate diagnosis. Your physician uses your symptoms, physical examination findings, and imaging to identify the specific source of your pain before recommending any treatment. This matters because the same symptom — lower back pain that radiates into the leg. For example, can have several different structural causes, and the right treatment depends entirely on which one is actually present.

Interventional pain management is typically tried first when the pain source is a nerve, joint, or soft tissue that can be treated with a targeted injection or ablation procedure. Surgery becomes the appropriate recommendation when imaging shows a structural problem that injections cannot fix, when a patient has had adequate non-surgical care without sufficient relief, or when nerve compression is severe enough to cause functional deficits such as weakness or loss of bladder or bowel control.