A Spine Center Approach that Work
Pain Relief, Performance, and Prevention: the comprehensive, Integrated, long-term approach to specialized spine care.
Four out of five Americans will have an attack of back pain during their lifetime. Many people are doomed to endless visits to the back doctor. That's because once you have your first back pain attack, you are four times more likely to have a recurrence. If you have back or neck pain, we are now in a position to help.
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PacificaSpine, with locations in Ventura and Thousand Oaks, is a by-product of discussions with case managers, rehab nurses and managed care experts on a local and national level who believe that spine care can be improved through a multidisciplinary “team†approach. As an integrated, specialized spine center we have the specialized training and expertise to provide the most effective and economical, non-surgical spine care. Our center of excellence incorporates multiple traditional, alternative, and cutting-edge spine treatment options including acupuncture, injections and procedures, core exercise, neuromuscular rehab, manual therapy, pilates exercises, nutrition, and much more.
Our spine specialists comprehensively evaluate and design integrated treatment programs selecting from multiple treatment options, for the most effective and efficient care. Specialized care is your best chance for an accurate diagnosis, which is most critical for effective and appropriate treatment.
Integrated care draws from the best and most appropriate of a myriad of traditional, alternative, and cutting-edge treatment options dependent on your particular circumstances. Simply put, we recommend what you need, and avoid what you don’t. The result is more effective and economical programs that save time, expense, and unnecessary suffering.
The Medical Director and founder of PacificaSpine is Dr. Mark Simonson, a non-surgical spine care specialist. Dr. Simonson is ACGME board-certified in physical medicine and pain medicine. To complete the integrated spine team, PacificaSpine includes the expertise of Mira Simonson as Director of Physical Therapy and Conditioning. She has been a part of leading spine and sports medicine practices from Minneapolis to Honolulu and also managed her own practice in Jackson Hole, Wy.
How we are different
The problem with back and neck pain is that care is often fragmented, forcing the patient to travel to multiple offices in the quest for relief of back pain. Patients often have to drive from a spine physician’s office for X-rays, a second location for an MRI and a third location for pain-relieving injections. By putting all these services under one roof in Ventura, the patient can benefit from improved coordination of care with the entire team of specialists in spine talking to each other about your case all in one location. The end result is that the patient is often able to return to activity with a nonsurgical approach.
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The PacificaSpine physicians already see a variety of complex cases from across Ventura County, including patients from the cities of Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Ventura, Camarillo, Ojai and Santa Barbara. PacificaSpine emphasizes a nonsurgical approach to back pain, recognizing that in most cases spine surgery should be the last card to be played after nonsurgical options have been tried. About half of patients are referred to PacificaSpine by other doctors in the region.
Research has shown that complex problems such as back pain are treated more successfully with a integrated, specialized approach that combines the expertise of many back specialists. The strength of PacificaSpine, main office in Ventura, lies in the medical expertise brought in by a variety of specialists who complement each other, including experts in physical medicine, pain medicine, and physical therapy.
An internal pain specialist is often able to relieve some back and neck pain symptoms with special injections that enable a patient to bridge to therapy. Dr. Mark Simonson specializes in pain relieving lumbar spinal injections and as well as myelograms, which may reveal the amount of damage in the spine.
MIra Simonson is a physical therapist who specializes in spine, she uses customized hands-on treatments to relieve pain symptoms, along with special exercises to help make the back stronger, more flexible and resistant to injury.
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