Chavez, Rick, MD

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Aetna
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Specialties

Primary: Pain Medicine Specialist

Sub-Specialty: General

Additional Specialties: Pain Management

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Fax: (310) 374-1576

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master card, visa

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Prospect I Professional Bldg

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South Redondo Beach

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Dr. Rick Chavez, MD

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http://www.painandaddiction.com

http://pain-institute.com

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Phone: (310) 798-1633

Address: 510 N Prospect Ave Ste 209, Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Website: http://www.painandaddiction.com

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General Practitioners

Osteoporosis
Arthritis
The most important distinction for a physician to make is whether or not a medical condition is painful due to inflammation, nerve damage, or a combination of the two. Most conventional treatments are directed toward treating conditions of inflammation only. Therefore, this approach does not work well for other painful conditions such as neuropathy (nerve damage) or certain inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, which also effect nerves. In the later case NSAIDs (anti-inflammatories) such as Vioxx may work well for the arthritic component of the disease but not the neuropathic component. This means you may continue to have pain due to the diseased involvement of nerves despite using Vioxx.
Fibromyalgia
Plantar Fasciitis
Primary Care
As a new patient, our team specialist will carefully evaluate your medical history, work with your primary care physician and develop a plan for pain treatment. Here are some of the diagnostic tests used in our evaluation...
Constipation
Electrocardiogram
Answer: New workers can sometime have pre-existing condition, habits, and limitation in functions. These limitations may to be detected early so you have the proper information to determine if the employee is fit for work. In addition, Americana Injury provide drug screening, complete blood testing, alcohol testing, EKG, Fit test, and Functional Capacity for pre-employment care.
Diarrhea
Immunizations

Endometriosis
Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain usually occurs below the naval. It can be sudden and severe, or mild and prolonged. If your pelvic pain lasts for six months or more, be it continuous or intermittent, it can be termed as chronic pelvic pain. Visit your general physician ASAP if you experience pain in your pelvic region. They may refer you to a gynecologist, if required.
Pregnancy
Labor and Delivery
Intratehcal drug delivery or pain pump is the treatment, in which pain medication is administered directly into your spinal cord. The system has a small pump which is kept inside the skin of your abdomen and delivered medication with the help of catheter to the area around your spinal cord, similar to an epidural that women might have while childbirth. The Pain pump is considered to be the treatment option of many conservative methods, which have failed to give you relief from your pain. As medication is taken into your spinal cord directly, your symptoms can be controlled with a less dose. The main objective of this treatment is to have control over symptoms and to decrease oral medication and reducing their side effects.

Kidney Stones
Endoscopy
Urinary Tract Infection

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome’s diagnosis is done through a combination of a patient’s history, physical examination and tests known as nerve conduction studies.
Neurolysis
RACZ Epidural Neurolysis is known as injection or series of injections into the spine, as therapy for chronic and back pain. This injection is performed 4 times in two days. Back pain is considered to be complex and has many causes. Experience of interventional pain therapy for chronic back pain has manifested that the pain is mostly because of scar tissue either caused from injury or disc herniation or last conservative back surgery. Racz Epidural Neurolysis has the ability to avoid the need for spinal surgery in many patients who suffer from chronic back pain and sciatic pain. This injection treatment has the ability to provide faster and affective long term relief from chronic pain and irritation in the lumbar spine, without the necessity of spinal surgery. Racz Epidural Neurolysis is very much effective in removing lower back pain and radiating sciatic pain.
Multiple Sclerosis
Pain Management Institute Services helps clients to alleviate or minimize the pain and suffering of patients through evaluation and treatment, helping the patient to achieve hope and a higher quality of life. Whether you pain is acute of chronic, you will find the hope and help you need to deal with the pain.

Mental Health
Medical history and physical exam is crucial to diagnosing pelvic pain. Be ready to discuss in detail your pain history, mental health and sexual history. The following tests also help pinpoint the root cause of the condition...

Endocrinologist

Diabetes Care
Hypothyroidism
The condition that can contribute to arm pain, swelling in the joints and soft tissues or educed blood flow in the hands. These include obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, diabetes, lupus and hypothyroidism.

Ultrasound
MRI
Before performing a treatment your doctor will go through your MRI in order to find out with nerves are culprit of producing pain, in the beginning a series of epidural steroid injections are performed to reduce and treat your pain.
Radiology
A radiology technician will use an X-ray machine to locate the spinal nerve. Your back will be cleaned with a special solution and then the doctor will numb the areas with some local anesthetic. You will then feel a pressure sensation as the doctor inserts each needle into the corrected locations.
X-Rays
Nuclear Medicine
Before deeming the back surgery as “failed,” doctors willconduct certain tests to make sure that the problem cannot be corrected anymore with further back surgery. Tests can include MRI, CT scans, X-rays, EMG (electromyography) and nuclear medicine bone scans.
Computed Tomography
Your medical history will be examined by your doctor, asking you questions about your pain, such as when did the pain start, what were the feelings at the time of it and was it for a longer duration etc. To know the cause and type of the pain, your doctor will be performing some tests such as Blood-tests, x-rays, CT scans and MRIs that will help choose for you the best treatment.
Chemotherapy

Sciatica
Sciatica; that is the feeling of tingling or numbness produced by the nerve roots out of the spinal cord and into the lower back.
Whiplash
This is a common neck injury. It happens when your neck jerks back and forth quickly and violently. Your spine bends past its normal range of motion. This can injure the vertebrae of your cervical spine. It can damage the supporting ligaments and muscles in your neck.
Pinched Nerve
Microdiscectomy Spine Surgery also known as micro-decompression spine surgery is a process of removing tiny piece of bone over the nerve or disc material. This helps in alleviating pain that is caused by neural impingement or most probably the pinched nerve. Being less expensive and a less risky procedure, it is known for its main purpose which is to relieve back pain by taking off the pressure from the nerves.
Hip Replacement
Laparoscopy

Plastic Surgeons

Botox
Most people do not know Botox® injections are not only used to eliminate the fine lines and wrinkles, but also for controlling chronic pain, including back and nerve pain. Botox® is knows as purified protein, extracted from bacteria, which helps in relaxing muscles. Botox® has been certified by the FDA for the treatment of spasm around the eye, imbalances of muscle of the neck, eye wandering and wrinkles in the forehead. Botox® has been used successfully for treating various other medical conditions since 1989, including spasticity, myofascial pain, back pain, neck pain, headache, and overactive sweat glands.

Cyst
Lesions
Radiofrequency lesioning can help patients with chronic neck and back pain that do not get relief from medication, physical therapy and spinal injections. It is a procedure, in which your doctor uses special needles to produce lesions along with selected nerves. The needle heats the nerve up to 80 (about the temperature of hot, not boiling water). The function of this heat is to stop the nerve to produce pain signals. Radiofrequency lesioning can be effective for the patients of neck and back pain, the successes ratio of Radiofrequency is much good in eliminating the pain.

Physical Therapists

Physical Therapy
Facet joints are known as small joints, they exist at every element of the spine, and they also give stability and help in motion. The facet joints may get painful when it is damaged by arthritis of the spine, a back injury or any mechanical stress to the back. A cervical, thoracic or lumbar facet joint injection contains a less quantity of local anesthetic or steroid medication that can numb the facet joints and help to block the pain. Facet joint injection is produced to help you in order to bear physical therapy without any pain for the rehabilitation of your injury.
Occupational Therapy
Frozen Shoulder
Frozen shoulder, very painful condition that stops simple movement in the joint and it can stop movement in the shoulder as well
Tennis Elbow
Tennis Elbow (an injury to the tendon in the outer elbow) and Golfer’s Elbow (causes affect on the inner tendon of the elbow)
Slipped Disc
Irritation in the sciatic nerve can give rise to this kind of pain. One of the most common causes of sciatica is slipped disc.
Shoulder Pain
Neck Pain
Back Pain

Plantar Fasciitis
If you have pain in your foot from plantar fasciitis, platelet rich plasma therapy may help. It uses parts of your own blood to help your body heal itself. PRP can help your foot feel better and work better.

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