Non-Surgical Treatment For Spinal Stenosis In Fremont, CA

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39180 Farwell Dr., #110 Fremont, CA 94538

Each spinal vertebra (spinal bone) has a hole in the middle — the spinal canal — through which the nerves and spinal cord run. When structures inside or outside the spinal canal put pressure on these nerves, it’s called spinal stenosis.

Because the nerves that run through the spine are pain-sensitive and connect to your legs, you can get lower back pain as well as weakness or numbness in your legs or feet. People with spinal stenosis tend to suffer from standing intolerance, and standing for any length of time can cause back pain or leg symptoms that immediately improve once they sit down.

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How Is Spinal Stenosis Commonly Treated?

Common more conservative treatments include physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medications, and high-dose epidural steroid injections to help reduce swelling around the nerves. However, although steroid injections temporarily help the pain, they can have severe side effects and reduce your body’s ability to heal. 

If all of the above fails, spinal stenosis is treated with surgery to decompress the area, which often means removing bone, disc, and ligaments around the tight spot in the spinal canal. Other times, spinal fusion surgery is performed (hardware is inserted to bolt the spinal bones together), but this can lead to adjacent segment disease (ASD), where areas above and below the fusion can get damaged over time. 

Additionally, spinal surgery comes with significant downtime.

That’s why we’ve developed a different approach.

39180 Farwell Dr.
#110
Fremont, CA 94538

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Doctors

Interventional pain management specialist Navin Mallavaram, MD, holds board certifications in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He provides exceptional treatment at The Spine & Pain Center of California, which has offices in Pleasanton and Fremont, California. Dr. Mallavaram founded The Spine & Pain Center of California to offer state-of-the-art facilities and compassionate pain management care to men and women in the Bay Area community.

Dr. Mallavaram graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora. He completed an internal medicine internship at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, followed by his residency at Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Mallavaram had the honor of being named chief resident in his final year at Columbia. After completing his residency, Dr. Mallavaram completed a fellowship in Pain Medicine at Columbia’s Manhattan Center for Pain Management.

Dr. Mallavaram specializes in treating spinal pain. However, his extensive training means he is highly knowledgeable and can treat a wide variety of painful musculoskeletal disorders. Dr. Mallavaram believes in using a comprehensive approach to pain management that looks at all aspects of a patient’s health. He works to restore his patient’s health and improve their general quality of life.

Dr. Mallavaram is active in high-quality medical research that focuses on improving pain management and treating spinal conditions. He’s completed research projects sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and presented his award-winning research at national medical conferences. Dr. Mallavaram co-authored a chapter in a pain management textbook that is used in training programs all over the world. He regularly attends lectures and workshops to stay up to date on developments in pain management.

Away from his work as a leading interventional pain management physician, Dr. Mallavaram enjoys spending time with his wife and children. He also likes to travel and play golf.

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Areas Treated

Cervical Spine (Not Upper Cervical or CCI)*, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

*This provider is NOT authorized by Regenexx to treat the C0-C1 or C1-C2 levels of the neck or CCI (craniocervical instability).

During Regenexx’s outpatient procedures, custom concentrations of your body’s natural healing agents are injected into the exact areas of damage in the spine. Treatments use only your own blood to make super-concentrated platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or your own bone marrow concentrate (BMC), which contains stem cells.

Spinal stenosis treatment may include Regenexx-DDD protocol, which is the world’s first alternative to stenosis surgery that allows you to maintain your normal anatomy. Best of all, your downtime will be a fraction of what it is with surgery and generally requires little or no opioid pain medications or time off of work.

Am I a candidate?
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Join Chris Centeno, MD, founder of Regenexx, to learn how Regenexx procedures can help treat your back pain without surgery and lead to a faster recovery.

During this free webinar you’ll learn:

  • How procedures using bone marrow concentrate (BMC) and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) compare to surgery and other spine pain treatment options
  • Procedure expectations
  • Answers to the most common questions about regenerative medicine treatments
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At Regenexx, we want the best outcomes for everyone. So we’ve developed a process to determine if our treatments may be right for you.

During your initial appointment, your Regenexx doctor will use our four-part SANS (stability, articulation, neuromuscular, and symmetry) evaluation to identify the underlying causes of your pain. Your doctor will examine your injury through a full range of motion and may use ultrasound to observe the inner workings in real time.

This is important, as research shows that an MRI indicating stenosis isn’t enough to appropriately diagnose stenosis as the cause of back pain.

Am I a candidate?

Watch a real Regenexx spinal procedure performed by a certified Regenexx physician:

Our goal is to use the least invasive, least expensive procedure to get the desired results. Your Regenexx physician will work with you to determine whether that would be a platelet procedure or a BMC procedure.

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