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Pain Management in Houston, TX.Interventional pain management for chronic spine, joint, and nerve pain — including spinal injections, RFA, and nerve blocks.. Remix Medical's pain management service offers board-certified, interventional treatment for chronic pain that hasn't responded to standard care, serving patients across Houston and Texas. We treat chronic back and neck pain, sciatica, herniated discs, joint pain, headaches, neuropathy, and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), using epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation (RFA), and spinal cord stimulation evaluation. Care is multimodal and coordinated with your other Remix physicians on one shared record.

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Treatments & services

Pain Management services offered at Remix Medical.

Beyond diagnosis, our clinicians provide ongoing management across every stage of care — from prevention and early management to coordinating advanced therapy. Tap any service for details.

Cervical Epidural Injection

Cervical epidural steroid injections to reduce inflammation, relieve chronic neck pain, and resolve cervical radiculopathy — performed under fluoroscopic guidance at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Cervical Medial Branch Block

Diagnostic and therapeutic cervical medial branch blocks to pinpoint the source of chronic neck pain and deliver targeted facet joint relief — performed under fluoroscopy at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Discography

Provocative discography to identify the exact spinal disc causing chronic back or neck pain when MRI results are inconclusive — performed under fluoroscopy by pain specialists at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Facet Joint Injections

Fluoroscopically guided facet joint injections to reduce inflammation in the arthritic joints of the neck, mid-back, and lower back — performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Hip Joint Injections

Fluoroscopic and ultrasound-guided hip joint injections to diagnose and treat hip arthritis — and to distinguish true hip pain from referred lumbar spine pain — at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Intrathecal Pump

Implanted intrathecal drug delivery systems that deliver pain medication directly to the spinal cord at a fraction of the oral dose — for patients with severe refractory pain, evaluated with a trial first at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Knee Joint Injections

Ultrasound-guided knee joint injections to reduce inflammation, drain effusion, and relieve arthritic knee pain — performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Lumbar Epidural Injection

Fluoroscopically guided lumbar epidural steroid injections to reduce nerve root inflammation and relieve sciatica, radiating leg pain, and spinal stenosis symptoms — performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Lumbar Medial Branch Block

Diagnostic and therapeutic lumbar medial branch blocks to confirm facet joint pain as the source of chronic low back pain and determine candidacy for radiofrequency ablation — performed under fluoroscopy at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Lumbar Sympathetic Injections

Fluoroscopically guided lumbar sympathetic blocks to interrupt sympathetically maintained pain in the leg — a key intervention for CRPS, phantom limb pain, and vascular pain at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Nerve Block

Image-guided nerve block injections to relieve chronic back, neck, joint, and post-surgical pain — performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Neuroma Injection

Ultrasound-guided neuroma injections to quiet a specific painful nerve ending — used for Morton's neuroma, amputation stump pain, and post-surgical nerve pain at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Percutaneous Discectomy

Minimally invasive percutaneous disc decompression to relieve pressure on a compressed nerve root without open surgery, incision, or fusion — for carefully selected patients with contained disc herniation at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Therapy

Autologous platelet-rich plasma injections that concentrate your own growth factors to stimulate healing in chronic tendinopathy and mild-to-moderate joint arthritis — delivered under ultrasound guidance at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)

Minimally invasive radiofrequency ablation to interrupt chronic pain signals from facet joints, sacroiliac joints, and arthritic spine pain — performed by pain management specialists at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Sacroiliac Joint Injection

Image-guided sacroiliac joint injections to diagnose and treat SI joint pain — a frequently missed cause of one-sided low back and buttock pain, performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Selective Nerve Root Injections

Transforaminal selective nerve root blocks to pinpoint which spinal nerve is generating your pain and to reduce inflammation around it — performed under fluoroscopy by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Spinal Cord Stimulation

Spinal cord stimulation evaluation and trial for chronic pain that has outlasted surgery and medication — including failed back surgery syndrome and CRPS. Every patient trials the device before any permanent implant, at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Stellate Ganglion Injections

Image-guided stellate ganglion blocks to interrupt sympathetically maintained pain in the arm, hand, head, and neck — used for CRPS, phantom limb pain, and post-herpetic neuralgia at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Stem Cell Therapy

DRAFT — NOT FOR PUBLICATION. Requires legal and clinical review before this record may be set to Published. See Audit Trail Summary.

Thoracic Epidural Injection

Fluoroscopically guided thoracic epidural steroid injections to relieve mid-back pain, band-like chest wall pain, and thoracic radiculopathy — performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Trigger Point Injections

Targeted trigger point injections to release taut, painful bands of muscle that refer pain to the head, back, and limbs — performed by board-certified pain management physicians at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Viscosupplementation

Hyaluronic acid injections to restore the lubricating properties of joint fluid in mild-to-moderate knee arthritis — a non-steroid option for patients deferring knee replacement, offered at Remix Medical in Houston, TX.

Your physician

Your pain management at Remix Medical.

Every clinician at Remix Medical is board-certified and owns the practice — so the physician in your exam room is the one making decisions about your care.

  • Raju Mantena, DO

    Pain Medicine Physician

    Medical Center — South Freeway · Montrose — Upper Kirby · Pearland

    Board certifiedAccepting newBook

Where we see patients

Pain Management offices across Greater Houston.

Our pain management clinicians see patients at 3 offices.

Cost & insurance

Insurance accepted for pain management care.

Remix Medical accepts most major commercial plans, Medicare, and Medicare Advantage for pain management.

Not sure if we take your plan? Call (713) 597-5131 — our benefits team verifies coverage in under a minute. Or see the full list of accepted plans →

Patient voices

What pain management patients say about Remix Medical.

Verified reviews from Google — unedited.

  • ★★★★★
    I've been seeing Dr. Mantena for about 8 or 9 years now, and I still stand by my original post: I greatly appreciate Dr. Mantena and his staff. They are professional but friendly....but most importantly, they put up with me!! 😆 Seriously, Dr. Mantena is a wonderful pain Dr. He listens to me and involves me in my plan of care. I trust him, and coming from me, that says a lot! If you're in need of a good pain dr, I would definitely recommend Dr. Mantena!
    Verified Google review
  • ★★★★★
    Dr. Mantena is an amazing, caring, and professional doctor. Before I found him I suffered so much with pain. Very professional and awesome staff. He truly cares for his patients
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  • ★★★★★
    Awesome care. Easy to make an appointment by phone. Didn't take long to get in. Was treated very respectfully. Dr Mantena spent a lot of time with me discussing my history to help determine the best treatment regiment moving forward.
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