Karen Brichta, M.D.

Conditions Commonly Evaluated or Treated

Within Anesthesiology generally. Availability varies by clinician, training and location — this profile has not been claimed, so nothing here is a personal claim by the provider.

Conditions

Sedation & Phobias

• Panic Attacks During Medical Procedures
• Special Needs Procedure Anxiety

Anesthesia complications

• Anesthesia Allergy or Reaction
• Fear of Waking Up During Surgery

Back & spine

• Arthritis of the spine
• Degenerative disc disease
• Failed back surgery syndrome
• Herniated disc
• Lower back pain
• Neck pain
• Sacroiliac joint pain
• Spinal compression fracture
• Spinal stenosis
• Spondylolisthesis
• Tailbone pain
• Upper Back Pain

Chronic pain

• Chest Wall Pain After Surgery

Facial & jaw pain

• Temporomandibular joint disorder
• Throat nerve pain

General pain

• Cancer pain
• Chronic pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Severe post-op pain

Head & facial pain

• Chronic migraines
• Occipital neuralgia
• Spinal headache
• Trigeminal neuralgia

Headaches

• Cluster Headaches

Joint pain

• Hip Replacement Pain
• Knee pain
• Lateral hip pain and trochanteric bursitis
• Shoulder Pain

Mental health

• Trauma
• Treatment-resistant depression

Muscle pain

• Muscle knots and spasms

Musculoskeletal pain

• Rib pain

Nerve pain

• Abdominal wall nerve pain
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
• Foot Numbness and Tingling
• Groin nerve pain after hernia surgery
• Nerve damage after surgery
• Neuropathy
• Outer thigh burning and numbness
• Phantom limb pain
• Pinched nerve
• Piriformis syndrome
• Sciatica
• Shingles pain
• Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome

Pelvic pain

• Chronic pelvic pain
• Pudendal nerve pain

Post-surgery recovery

• Hoarseness and throat pain after surgery
• Nausea After Surgery

Sedation & anesthesia

• Anesthesia anxiety
• History of anesthesia complications

Spine pain

• Torn spinal disc
• Whiplash neck injury

Procedures & services

Nerve blocks

• Celiac Plexus Nerve Block
• Abdominal Nerve Block
• Ganglion impar block
• Groin nerve block
• Pudendal nerve block
• Superior hypogastric plexus block

Nerve Blocks

• Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) Block

Pain Relief Procedures

• Continuous Nerve Catheter Placement

Regional anesthesia

• Adductor canal block
• Brachial plexus block
• Popliteal nerve block

Sedation

• In-Office Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery
• Pediatric Dental Sedation
• Sedation for Colonoscopy and Endoscopy
• Sedation for Egg Retrieval
• Sedation for MRI
• Sedation for Vasectomy
• IV sedation for endoscopy

Sedation & anesthesia

• General anesthesia
• Moderate dental sedation
• Sedation for dental work
• Labor epidural
• Pre-surgery anesthesia consult
• Spinal spinal block

Specialized Care

• Post-Operative Nausea Treatment

Vascular Access

• Ultrasound-Guided IV Placement

Ablation

• Hip radiofrequency ablation

Head & facial procedures

• Botox for chronic migraines
• Facial nerve block for headache
• Occipital nerve block

Implants & devices

• Pain pump implant
• Pain pump refill and check
• Peripheral nerve stimulator implant
• Spinal cord stimulator implant
• Spinal cord stimulator trial

Infusion therapies

• Ketamine infusion therapy

Infusion therapy

• Lidocaine Infusion for Chronic Pain

Joint injections

• Joint injection or aspiration
• Ultrasound-guided hip injection

Muscle injections

• Trigger-point injection

Nerve injections

• Celiac plexus block
• Lumbar sympathetic block
• Nerve block
• Rib nerve block
• Shoulder nerve block
• Stellate ganglion block

Nerve procedures

• Knee nerve block and ablation
• Peripheral nerve hydrodissection
• Radiofrequency ablation

Pain relief procedures

• Cryoneurolysis

Spine injections

• Epidural steroid injection
• Facet joint injection
• Medial branch block
• Sacroiliac joint injection
• Tailbone epidural injection

Spine procedures

• Blood patch for spinal headache
• Epidural Lysis Of Adhesions
• Interspinous Spacer
• Kyphoplasty
• Mild procedure for spinal stenosis
• Percutaneous disc decompression
• Spinal bone nerve ablation
• Vertebroplasty