About Us

Our Mission

We connect the dots. We paint the complete picture of the patient’s injury or disease.

We live in a world where most people live in the most common places and deal with the most common things. At SSP we have the privilege of working with patients that have very unique and uncommon medical and surgical problems. These patients frequently are involved in common accidents but develop both common and uncommon injuries. With others, the common injuries get treated but the uncommon injuries are ignored, untreated or poorly treated. We have developed expertise in the identification and treatment of those injuries and diseases.  

We at SSP specialize in the identification and treatment of those uncommon conditions. These include but are not limited to injuries to the head, brain and upper neck, brachial plexus, chest wall, inguinal region, thoracic spine and pelvic region.   We have developed specialized techniques to effectively treat these conditions.  

Why are we so effective? We are more effective because our approach is based on a thorough understanding of the molecular basis of disease and the injury process. We develop our treatment platforms from a molecular perspective. We facilitate the clearing of inflammatory cells from injured tissue, thereby reducing the development of scar tissue and permanent damage. Our treatment platforms are designed to give your body an opportunity to heal itself before any major surgery. Our procedures create an environment at the site of injury that facilitates and accelerates that healing process.  

We perform the basic procedures such as transforaminal and translaminar epidural injections and facet injections, but we also do the complex procedures.  

Each accident has a predictable series of injuries depending on the mechanism of accident, velocity, position of the victim, type of vehicle involved, comorbidity of the patient, etc.We know those models. Instead of doing what is commonly done, focus on lower back and lower neck, we do detailed examinations of each patient with a particular focus on the sites that are predicted from the mechanism of the accident. Those sited frequently include, but are not limited to, the brain, skull, upper neck above C3, chest wall, thoracic nerves, brachial plexus, inguinal region, lumbar plexus, symphysis pubis, Sacro-iliac joints, tendons, ligaments and bursa of the hips, ankles, shoulders and knees.   

Brain injury is frequently overlooked. In some instances, it can be very subtle.  And when it is diagnosed it is frequently done on a subjective basis. We do not do that. We have imaging techniques, such as DTI imaging, that objectively identifies the areas of diminished functioning. We have MRI that identifies areas of tissue damage. We also utilize performance-based tools to objectively and accurately quantify functional abnormalities and psychological trauma. We also have access to the tools to treat those individuals.