Your back pain isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a barrier to living the active, high-performance life you’ve built. Whether it's long hours at the helm of your business, intense focus on your investments, or the pursuit of an athletic lifestyle, mobility and comfort are non-negotiable. You need lasting relief, not just a temporary fix.
But here’s the truth: who injects your spine matters.
When it comes to spinal procedures, precision, experience, and an in-depth understanding of spinal anatomy are essential. Unfortunately, not everyone performing these procedures has the rigorous training necessary to support safety, accuracy, and optimal results.
At Pain Experts, you’re in the hands of a true specialist in interventional spine medicine—not just someone who learned spinal injections at a weekend course.
The Problem: Inexperienced Hands Can Lead to Long-Term Problems
Many doctors perform spinal injections, but few have dedicated years to mastering interventional spine care. Some may have learned injections as a side skill in general pain management, but without a fellowship emphasizing in interventional spine treatments, their experience is often limited.
What’s at stake if your provider lacks the proper expertise?
Misplaced Injections → Wasted procedures that don’t target the real source of pain.
Short-Term Relief, Long-Term Damage → Temporary fixes like burning nerves (radiofrequency ablation) may reduce pain, but they also destroy stabilizing muscle nerves, leading to muscle atrophy and the possibility of worsening spine instability over time.
Unnecessary Surgeries → If the wrong structures are treated—or not treated at all—you may be pushed toward invasive procedures that could have been avoided.
This is why experience matters
Expertise in Spine Procedures That Preserve Function
Dr. Westergaard isn’t just any physician performing spinal injections. She trained with the very best in interventional spine medicine, completing her fellowship at Texas Tech University under the legendary Dr. Gabor Racz and Dr. Prithvi Raj—two pioneers who literally wrote the textbooks on interventional pain management.
Under their mentorship, and alongside other renowned experts like Dr. Miles Day, Dr. Westergaard developed the technical skills and diagnostic expertise that separate routine injections from precise spinal interventions.
Here’s why that matters:
1. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Nerve Ablation and Muscle Atrophy
For years, traditional pain treatments have relied on radiofrequency ablation (RFA)—burning nerves in the spine to block pain signals. While this can reduce pain, it comes at a cost:
✅ It destroys key stabilizing nerves connected to multifidus muscles—the deep stabilizers of the spine.
✅ Multifidus atrophy leads to worsening spine instability, setting patients up for chronic pain and further degeneration.
✅ Pain relief is temporary, but the structural damage is long-lasting—and nerves that grow back may not function the same way. Facet joint inflammation continues with inflammatory products sometimes growing into the spinal canal and neuroforamen crowding and pinching nerves. Nerve ablations don't stop this process.
At Pain Experts, we take a different approach—one that focuses on helping to preserve and helping repair spinal function rather than destroying it.
2. Advanced Treatments That Target the Root Cause
Instead of destroying nerve function, we use advanced regenerative medicine techniques to calm inflammation, help repair structures and potentially stabilize the spine.
This includes:
✅ Precision-Guided Injections
Using real-time ultrasound or fluoroscopy, injections are placed with pinpoint accuracy to ensure only the affected structures are treated.
This ensures maximum pain relief with minimal risk of complications.
✅ Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) & Other Biologic Injections
Instead of using destructive procedures, we use your body’s own healing factors to reduce inflammation and support tissue repair.
These treatments may help slow degenerative inflammation and support long-term spine health, rather than causing irreversible damage.
✅ Comprehensive Spine Care
We evaluate the full complexity of your spine, ensuring that multiple pain sources are addressed at once, rather than treating just a single level.
The reality is that spine degeneration is rarely limited to one area, and an experienced specialist can assess the entire spinal unit rather than treating symptoms in isolation.
Why You Need the Right Expert for Spinal Injections
Not everyone performing spinal injections understands the long-term effects of their procedures. The spine is a complex, interconnected system, and placing a needle in the wrong spot—or using the wrong treatment—can have long-term consequences.
✅ Dr. Westergaard’s expertise allows for:
The likelihood of safer procedures backed by years of experience.
Minimally invasive solutions that may help preserve spinal function rather than destroy it.
A comprehensive approach that addresses spine degeneration at multiple levels.
Your back pain isn’t just about today—it’s about supporting long-term mobility, stability, and quality of life. And that requires the highest level of expertise.
Don’t Trust Just Anyone With Your Spine
Your spine is too important to trust to just any provider with a needle. Spinal injections require expertise, precision, and a deep understanding of spinal anatomy.
At Pain Experts, you’ll be treated by one of the most experienced interventional spine specialists in the field—someone who has spent decades mastering the safest, most effective techniques to provide real, lasting relief.
Don’t take chances with your spine.
Schedule a consultation today and get the expert spinal care you deserve.
Visit our website to learn more about how our regenerative treatments can help you avoid unnecessary surgeries and long-term damage.
You wouldn’t trust an amateur with your business—why trust one with your spine?
At Pain Experts, we don’t just mask pain—we treat its root cause. Book your consultation today and experience the difference that true spinal expertise can make.
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