Browse a wide range of treatments offered at Pacific Pain & Wellness — including medical procedures, advanced therapies, and alternative approaches to managing chronic pain and mental health.
If you or someone you love has been living with depression that doesn’t respond to medication or therapy, you’re not alone. Nearly one-third of people with major depressive disorder experience what’s called treatment-resistant depression (TRD). But there’s new hope—Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is changing the way we treat depression, offering lasting relief without the side effects of medication.
Undergoing a new medical treatment can be daunting. This guide aims to prepare you for ketamine infusion therapy, detailing what happens before, during, and after the procedure.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an FDA-cleared treatment that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of depression. Its safety and effectiveness have been well documented for many years and is recommended by the American Psychiatric Association for the treatment of major depressive disorder. TMS is one of the only non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical treatments for depression. TMS uses magnets to create a pulsed magnetic field, the same technology used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Ketamine is a powerful treatment tool that we use to manage symptoms of certain mood disorders. This medication has been used for decades as an anesthetic for surgery.
Over the years, science and medicine have also established ketamine as a safe and effective treatment for:
At Pacific Pain & Wellness Group in Los Angeles, we specialize in facet joint injections to help reduce pain and swelling caused by trauma, injury, or joint degeneration. Facet joint injections reduce inflammation, which relieves pain and allows your body to heal.
This treatment can make you more comfortable for a period of time so you can get back to doing what you love. With less pain, you can enjoy a better quality of life.
The nervous system in a human being is an extremely complex and delicate structure. When it sustains an injury, whether from an illness or other damaging incident, a neurological expert must be consulted for relief of pain and suffering.
Fortunately, the field of knowledge in neurology and pain management is rapidly expanding. This means new techniques are available to medical providers to relieve suffering from chronic pain conditions.