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Sarah Yovino, MD
Dr. Sarah Yovino is an Anesthesiologist that specializes in Interventional Pain Management. She was fellowship trained at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida in Pain Medicine. She has been Board Certified in Pain Medicine since 2008.
Dr. Yovino graduated from Ross University School of Medicine in 2002. She completed Anesthesiology residency in June of 2006, at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. She has been Board Certified in Anesthesiology since 2007.
Dr. Yovino worked at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan for two years after completing her fellowship. She has treated pain originating from every area in the body. Her goal is to relieve, reduce, or manage pain and improve a patient's overall quality of life through minimally invasive techniques specifically designed to diagnose and treat painful conditions. She also strives to help patients return to their activities of daily living and without heavy reliance on medications.
Her expertise in various conditions include, but are not limited to:
- Radiculopathy
- Post laminectomy pain
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Degenerative Disk Disease
- Occipital neuralgia
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Chronic pain due to cancer
- Sacroilitis
- Muscle spasms
- Spondylosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Spinal Stenosis
For back pain sufferers, interventional pain management techniques can be extremely useful. In addition to a thorough medical history and physical examination, Dr. Yovino has a wide array of treatments that can be used including, but not limited to the following:
- Epidural steroid injections, cervical/thoracic/lumbar
- Nerve root, and medial branch blocks
- Facet joint injections
- Discography
- Pulsed Radiofrequency Neurotomy (PRFN)
- Rhizotomy
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Peripheral nerve stimulation
- Percutaneous Discectomy/Nucleoplasty
- Intrathecal pumps
- Celiac Plexus Block and Neurolysis
- Occipital nerve blocks
- Sacroiliac joint injections
- Trigger point injections
- Trigeminal nerve blocks
Dr. Yovino is a member of various medical associations including:
American Medical Association
Florida Medical Association
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Michigan State Medical Society
Wayne County Medical Society of Southeastern Michigan. |