Non-Surgical Back Pain Solutions In Pleasanton, CA

Is there a better option than back surgery?

Regenexx provides breakthrough, non-surgical treatments that use your body’s own healing agents to treat back and neck pain due to common injuries including degenerative disc disease, stenosis, torn or painful discs, facet injuries, spondylolysis, and other degenerative problems related to the neck and spine.

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Your Alternative to Back Surgery

Have you been told that epidural steroid injections or invasive surgery are your only options to treat your back pain? Interventional orthopedics provides a non-surgical alternative that uses your own cells to repair the damage.

Steroid epidurals that place steroid medication around irritated or inflamed nerves in the spine do help patients avoid surgery for a time. The very high dose of steroids, however, can also cause severe side effects and actually reduce the body’s ability to heal ultimately leading to degeneration of the tissue and actually speeding the need for surgery.

Spinal fusion surgery is a highly invasive procedure that has a significant risk of complications. Research shows that complications occur in 36% of fusion patients while 76% still require narcotics for pain following their recovery from surgery. Surgical patients also miss three times as much work as those who don’t have surgery. A simple injection of your own cells, by contrast, has less than a 0.1% risk while the results of a spine fusion cannot be reversed and are categorized as a high-risk procedure with little guarantee of success.

At Regenexx we invented a new approach to orthopedic care we call Interventional Orthopedics. This approach involves the use of image guidance (flouroscopy and ultrasound) to precisely place high-dose cells from your body directly where they are needed in a specific joint structure. These cells then work in the site of your injury to grow into new, healthy tissue, a process that will only occur if the cells have been placed exactly where they need to go in order to achieve positive outcomes for the patient. This precise approach to orthopedic care can’t be replicated by a surgeon or nurse in a chiropractor’s office. Interventional Orthopedics requires thousands of hours of training following a standardized protocol process to become a licensed Regenexx physician.

Regenexx has more than a decade of experience in interventional orthopedic treatments for spine pain that allows us to address as many factors as possible to gain insight into the true cause of the problem.  We identify the most probable sources of pain and select the most appropriate treatment options available. Only then can the natural healing process be initiated using the safest, least invasive procedure possible.

The innovative Regenexx procedures help restore spinal function and decrease pain without the need for surgery. During this outpatient procedure, our expert physicians use precise image guidance to inject custom concentrations of your body’s natural healing mechanisms into and around the areas of damage to help stabilize your spine and improve overall function and mobility.

This page contains an extensive library of educational resources on spine conditions and our patented spine procedures created by Regenexx and our founder, Chris Centeno, M.D.. We encourage you to research your options.

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Regenexx Benefits

  • Increased function
  • Pain reduction
  • Most individuals do not experience extensive downtime
  • Minimal time off of work
  • No surgery
  • Minimal use of mobility tools (crutches, etc.)
  • Minimal disruption of regular routine

7031 Koll Center Pkwy
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Pleasanton, CA 94566

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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

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).

Regenexx Results

Since 2005 we have conducted research, accumulated patient results data, and obtained direct feedback from our patients. With one purpose in mind. To help you make an informed, confident decision to treat your condition.

Patient Results

Regenexx has performed more than 132,000 procedures worldwide. Regenexx keeps records of Regenexx procedures performed by physicians in our network in our outcomes database.

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Before & After MRI Library

We have accumulated patient imaging before and after a Regenexx procedure to document anatomy change.

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Spine 101

Dr. Chris Centeno explains how all of the pieces of the spine work together to maintain our health and how a single weakness in this important structure can lead to serious structural problems.

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