James Shields, MD, MBA, is a Board-Certified Physician with over 25 years clinical experience in pain management, anesthesiology and emergency medicine in the community hospital setting.
Dr. Shields is a leading physican in the practice of Interventional Pain Management.
He has long served patients with services including cervical and lumbar epidural steroid injections, selective nerve root and paravertebral blocks, sacroiliac joint injections, selective nerve root and neurolysis, zygopophyseal joint blocks, radiofrequency neuroablation, spinal cord stimulation and narcotic medication management.
Using his education, training, and experience Dr. Shields can review the records that you provide and write an opinion as to the probability of service connection of a disabling condition associated with the spine, chronic pain, peripheral neuropathy and other disabling conditions of the nerves.
We can help you to determine the degree of disability you suffer because of many different medical conditions that are associated with spine and nerve injuries.
We will also help you to evaluate the disabling effect that chronic pain has on your life.
The following are a few of the medical conditions we might help you to address.
Fibromyalgia
Intervertebral disc syndrome
Unfavorable ankylosis of the spine
Objective neurologic abnormalities including but not limited to bowel or bladder impairment, muscle spasm or guarding
Scoliosis
Reversed Lordosis
Abnormal Kyphosis
Combined range of motion - the sum of the range of forward flexion, extension, left and right lateral flexion, and left and right rotation
Unfavorable ankylosis
Vertebral fracture or dislocation
Sacroiliac injury and weakness
Lumbosacral or cervical strain
Spinal stenosis
Spondylolisthesis or segmental instability
Ankylosing spondylitis
Spinal fusion
Degenerative arthritis of the spine
Intervertebral disc syndrome
You'll begin by contacting me with some basic information.
We'll talk soon after that to determine that I'll be able to
help you. Once we've agreed on the terms of what it will take
to get your IMO accomplished you'll send me the service
records and medical records I'll need to review for your IMO.
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