Vrajesh Mehta, MD

Dr. Vrajesh Mehta is an interventional pain management physician who also serves as the medical director for pain management services at Riverview Health. Double board-certified in pain management and anesthesiology, he is a graduate of St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada and completed his fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.

Dr. Mehta’s mission is to use evidence-based pain management techniques to improve each patient’s quality of life while helping them avoid addictive medications and invasive surgeries. His commitment to personalized care is evident from the very first visit, where he focuses on developing an individualized care plan designed to treat chronic pain and restore function.

Services Provided

Head & Neck

• Greater occipital nerve blocks
• Spinal accessory nerve block
• Peripheral nerve blocks
• Cervical medial branch block
• Cervical selective nerve root block
• Trigeminal nerve/sphenopalatine ganglion blocks
• Stellate ganglion block
• Cervical facet joint block
• Cervical epidural

Thoracic

• Epidural
• Shoulder joint injections
• Paravertebral block
• Kyphoplasty
• Intercostal nerve block and catheter for painful rib fractures

Abdominal

• Lumbar sympathetic block
• Superior hypogastric plexus block

Lumbar

• Lumbar epidural
• Lumbar facet joint injections
• Lumbar medial branch blocks
• Caudal epidural steroid injections
• Lumbar medial branch rhizotomy
• Lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections
• Kyphoplasty

Pelvic

• Sacroiliac joint injections
• Ganglion impar block
• Sacral selective nerve root block
• Bursal injection
• Pudendal nerve block
• Hip joint injections
• Piriformis injections/sciatic nerve injection

Extremities

• Tennis/golfer’s elbow
• Peripheral nerve injections and stimulation
• Pain in shoulder, arms, thighs,
• Chronic knee pain (after replacement)
• Chronic foot pain (after injury/surgery)
• Carpal tunnel
• Morton’s neuroma
• Joint injection

Radio-frequency Nerve Ablations

• Neck and low back arthritis
• Other joints such as knee and hip arthritis
• Sacroiliac joint arthritis

Advanced Interventions

• Kyphoplasty
• Spinal cord stimulator
• Peripheral nerve stimulator
• Dorsal root ganglion stimulator
• Sacro-iliac joint fusion, minimally invasive
• Viadisc
• Vertiflex implant and minimally invasive lumbar decompression for spinal stenosis

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