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Track: Main Meeting / Live Streaming

PS-05 - New Procedures for Spinal Pain

Saturday, November 15, 2025
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
Location: Lone Star Salon D - E
CE: 2.0

    Moderator(s)

  • Richard Rosenquist, MD (he/him/his)

    Enterprise Chairman, Department of Pain Management
    Cleveland Clinic
    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

    • Faculty(s)

  • Ameet Nagpal, MD

    Division Chief, PM&R, and Professor, Dept of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
    Medical University of South Carolina

  • Michael Hanes, MD

    Physician
    Jax Spine & Pain Centers/Centurion Medical Group
    Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, United States

    • Associate Faculty(s)

  • Nicholas Bremer, MD (he/him/his)

    Medical Director Amelia Island
    Jax Spine and Pain
    Jacksonville Beach, Florida, United States

    • Faculty(s)

  • FM

    Fassil Mesfin, MD, PhD

    Professor and Spine Felloship Program Director
    University of Texas, San Antonio, school of medicine, Texas, United States

Disclosure(s):
Richard W. Rosenquist, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Michael Hanes, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Fassil Mesfin, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Learning Objectives:

  • Examine new guidelines for steroid use in spine injections and their impact on practice.
  • Summarize evidence and outcomes for interspinous spacers and sacroiliac joint fusion procedures.
  • Illustrate the role of multifidus stimulation and basivertebral nerve RFA in the treatment of chronic low back pain.
  • Describe the surgeon’s perspective on the role of advanced interventional pain procedures.
  • Describe best practices for billing and coding pain procedures.

Presentations:

  • 8:00 AM - 8:05 AM CT
    Evaluating the Role of Parent Engagement in a Digital Graded Exposure Intervention

    Submitting Author: Dylan Mayanja, n/a – Charles R. Drew College of Medicine

    Co-Author: Laura Simons, PhD – Stanford University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Lauren Harrison, PhD – Stanford University School of Medicine

  • 8:05 AM - 8:10 AM CT
    Long-term outcomes of combined GMed and ITB percutaneous ultrasound tenotomy in recalcitrant GTPS

    Submitting Author: Tahereh Naeimi, M.D. – Montefiore Medical Center

    Co-Author: Sayed E. Wahezi, MD (he/him/his) – Montefiore Multidisciplinary Pain Program

    Co-Author: Ugur Yener, M.D. – Montefiore Medical Center

    Co-Author: Mohamed Awad, M.D. – Montefiore Medical Center

  • 8:10 AM - 8:35 AM CT
    ASRA Pain Medicine Steroid Guidelines Review and Long Acting Steroids for Spine Injections

    Speaker: Ameet Nagpal, MD – Medical University of South Carolina

  • 8:35 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Interspinous Spacers and Sacroiliac Joint Fusions - Evidence on Outcomes

    Speaker: Michael Hanes, MD – Jax Spine & Pain Centers/Centurion Medical Group

  • 9:00 AM - 9:25 AM CT
    Multifidus Stimulation and Basivertebral Nerve RFA

    Associate Faculty: Nicholas Bremer, MD (he/him/his) – Jax Spine and Pain

    Co-Presenter: Michael Hanes, MD – Jax Spine & Pain Centers/Centurion Medical Group

  • 9:25 AM - 9:50 AM CT
    A Surgeon's Perspective of the Role of Advanced Interventional Pain Procedures

    Speaker: Fassil Mesfin, MD, PhD – University of Texas, San Antonio, school of medicine

  • 9:50 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Billing & Coding Pearls

    Speaker: Richard W. Rosenquist, MD (he/him/his) – Cleveland Clinic