Lutheran Home, part of nonprofit Lutheran Life Communities, has opened a spine and joint clinic on its Arlington Heights, Ill.-based campus.
The clinic, housed within a senior living community, will open in June and offer evaluations and treatments for musculoskeletal pain, according to a May 28 press release.
Sports medicine and interventional pain specialist Sajjad Murtaza, MD, and pain management physician Akash Jindal, DO, will lead the clinic.
Previously, Dr. Murtaza was part of the team that established the Spine Center at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.
Physicians at the Lutheran Home facility will work closely with specialists at MyRehab, which offers outpatient and short-term rehabilitation therapy.
The clinic will focus on nonsurgical, interventional medicine and will not offer opioids or chiropractic care. It will offer diagnostic injections, EMG imaging and therapeutic interventions for spine and joint conditions, including lumbar epidural steroid injections, lumbar diagnostic medial branch blocks, lumbar facet injections and joint injections.
Around 40% of Dr. Murtaza’s patients are currently seniors who receive physical medicine and rehabilitation.
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