Live Between 1–3, Not 8–10
A life with less pain is possible with Intracept®, a breakthrough procedure for chronic low back pain.
Don’t let lower back pain dictate your life
To relieve vertebrogenic chronic low back pain, we address the pain at the source: the basivertebral nerve (BVN).
Different from other nerves in the body that regenerate, the BVN has not shown an ability to grow back as a pain-transmitting nerve. We have found that by heating the basivertebral nerve with a radiofrequency probe, we can stop it from sending pain signals to the brain.
Intercept your pain with Intracept®
The Intracept Procedure is a same-day procedure performed in an outpatient surgery center and requires minimal recovery steps. Patients are under anesthesia, and the procedure generally lasts an hour.
Unlike many major surgeries, the procedure is implant-free, so it won’t interfere with any spinal treatments needed in the future. It also preserves the overall structure of your spine.
Chronic back pain has met its match
The Intracept® Procedure offers a new way to significantly reduce or eliminate chronic low back pain. This groundbreaking technique is:
Implant free
A single, one-hour procedure
Proven to relieve pain for 5+ years
Minimally invasive for an easy recovery
Why the Intracept Procedure works
Our procedure for chronic low back pain is backed by strong scientific evidence, and most importantly, patients whose lives have been restored.
Lasting
Patients experienced significant improvements in function and pain three months post-procedure and have sustained these results for more than five years after a single treatment. More than one-third of patients reported being pain-free on their personal pain scale.
Effective
Two Level I randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrate that the Intracept Procedure is a more effective treatment compared to both a sham-control procedure and to non-surgical standard care.
Reproducible
Clinical studies have demonstrated consistent results that are reproducible in a typical community spine practice.
Safe
With a strong safety profile, less than 0.2% of patients reported a serious device or procedure-related complication following the procedure.
The proof is in
our patients
Meet a few of the people who are living a pain-free life again.
Meet your interventional pain care team
Dr. Joshua Horowitz, D.O.
Director of Interventional Pain Department,
CRMC–Crosby
Dr. Horowitz graduated from Kirksville College Osteopathic School of Medicine and completed his residency in anesthesiology at The John’s Hopkins Hospital. Following his residency, he pursued a fellowship in interventional pain at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Dan Lonergan, M.D.
Interventional Pain Specialists, CRMC–Crosby
Dr. Lonergan graduated from St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed his anesthesiology residency and interventional pain fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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