South Scottsdale patients living with chronic spine pain, facet joint disease, or nerve root compression have no shortage of interventional pain management options within Scottsdale proper — but the majority of those options are procedures-only practices that hand patients a prescription, perform a procedure, and discharge them without any coordinated rehabilitation framework. City Health Services provides interventional pain management for Scottsdale patients within a genuinely integrated multi-specialty practice at our Mesa Longmore Road clinic, approximately 20 minutes south via the Loop 101 to US-60 — where pain management procedures are coordinated with chiropractic rehabilitation and physical therapy in the same building, by providers who share your records and manage your care as a single program.

Interventional Pain Management Procedures for Scottsdale Patients

Epidural Steroid Injections

For Scottsdale patients with sciatica, cervical or lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy, or spinal stenosis producing arm or leg symptoms, a fluoroscopy-guided epidural steroid injection delivers corticosteroid and anesthetic directly to the inflamed nerve root at the precise spinal level responsible for your symptoms. Image confirmation before injection — not blind needle placement — is what produces reliable outcomes in appropriate candidates. Covered by Medicare and most commercial insurance plans when medically indicated.

Radiofrequency Ablation

For Scottsdale patients with chronic axial neck or back pain from facet joint degeneration — the deep, aching, extension-provoked spine pain common in this city’s active aging population — radiofrequency ablation following confirmed positive diagnostic medial branch blocks provides 9 to 18 months of meaningful, durable relief. Scottsdale golfers, cyclists, and active adults who have cycled through cortisone injections that work for six weeks and then fade are the archetypal RFA candidates.

Joint and Trigger Point Injections

Targeted joint and trigger point injections for knee and hip osteoarthritis, shoulder bursitis, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, and the myofascial pain syndromes common in Scottsdale’s athletically active population — providing fast-acting localized relief that enables productive participation in the rehabilitation that prevents recurrence.

Integration with Chiropractic and Physical Therapy

The clinical standard that differentiates City Health Services from a procedures-only pain practice is what happens after the injection. The therapeutic window created by an ESI or RFA is used productively through chiropractic care, spinal decompression, and physical therapy that occur at the same Longmore Road location, coordinated by providers who reviewed your chart before your procedure and will see you the week after it. For Scottsdale patients who have received procedures elsewhere and watched the benefit fade because no active rehabilitation followed, this coordination is the missing variable.

Insurance and Scheduling for Scottsdale Patients

Medicare and most major commercial plans cover medically indicated interventional procedures. Prior authorization handled by our administrative team. View accepted insurance plans.