Maurizio Albala, MD featured

We treat the whole person by diagnosing and treating the root cause of the pain—leading to better long-term outcomes.

About Dr. Albala

Skills in Multi-modal Pain Management: 

• Interventional Pain Procedures:

simple, complex and advanced procedures, 10-20 procedural encounters (with multiple procedures and according to complexity), fluoro- or US-assisted, including:

1. Spinal procedures (all spine levels): 
   1. Epidural procedures
   2. Facets and SI (diagnostic and therapeutic injections and RF ablation),
   3. Disk procedures
   4. Vertebroplasty
   5. Spinal Pumps and Stims Implants
2. Soft tissue: 
   1. Muscle invasive re-conditioning
   2. Joint injections
   3. Knee and hip nerves ablation
3. Nerves: 
   1. Sympathetic system treatment
   2. Peripheral nerve treatment
   3. Antineuropathic and Antidepressant treatments

• Medical management
  • Pain relief with multi-medications,
  • Proper, safe & effective use of opioids,
  • Coordination with Psychology, Psychiatry, Addictionologists
  • Prevention of escalation 
  • Managing integration with PT/OT, prosthetics, electrotherapy, and pain
  • Antineuropathic and antidepression infusions 

• Improvement/solution of specific Persistent Pain complaints/techniques, e.g.

1. Spine and soft tissues pain
2. Sacroiliac pain combined treatments
3. Headache/Migraine (medical and invasive treatments)
4. Post-surgical pain (spine surgery, inguinal herniorraphy, limb amputation)
5. Pelvic pain
6. Neuropathic pain (Neuromodulating IV infusions, sympathetic blocks, stims)
7. Cancer pain and integration with palliative care
8. Bio-Psycho-Social approach to Chronic Pain Syndromes, Pain & Addiction

• MD, anesthesia and PM&R residency in Italy,
• Orthopedic medicine (DU) in Paris,
• Anesthesiology residency and cardiac anesthesia in the Harvard system,
• Pain Management fellowship at Tuft University

Diagnosis, medication treatment, mini-invasive procedures, spine implants

• American Board of Anesthesiology (BC anesthesia and BC Pain mgmt)

• St Elizabeth Appleton
• Thedacare Appleton