INTERVENTIONAL PAIN
Andre Hobbs, M.D. is fellowship-trained in Interventional Pain Medicine and specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of pain syndromes related to a variety of injuries and medical conditions. He is dual board certified in the fields of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Pain Medicine. Dr. Hobbs uses his examination skills, advanced imaging, and other tools to pinpoint the source of pain and treat it using a multitude of advanced procedural techniques. Dr. Hobbs takes a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating his patients and works collaboratively with our own spine surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, and neurology team as well as with local chiropractors or physical therapists that are active in treating you as a patient. He recognizes pain is a complicated, often debilitating problem, that can have a major impact on a patient’s physical and mental well-being. He therefore has a thorough and individualized approach to diagnosing his patients and offers a comprehensive range of services for patients suffering from acute or chronic pain. He employs the use of numerous interventional pain procedures for pain management and diagnoses such as epidural and facet injections, peripheral nerve blocks, discography, kyphoplasty, adhesiolysis, radiofrequency ablations (rhizotomy), and spinal cord stimulation.
Dr. Hobbs is a graduate from the University of Illinois with honors and received his doctorate from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Hobbs then completed fellowship training in Interventional Pain Medicine at Emory University in the Georgia Pain Physicians Program.
For Dr. Hobbs, restoration of physical function, compassionate care, and patient education are important ingredients to his practice philosophy. He has a personable approach for managing each patient using the most advanced treatment options available. His personal interest includes sports & recreational activities, comedy, travel, & youth enrichment.
Surgical Expertise
Fluoroscopically Guided Spine and Extremity Injections
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Facet Injections
Epidural Steroid Injections
Peripheral Nerve Diagnostic and Therapeutic Injections
PRP Regenerative Therapies
Treatments for Muscle/Tendon/Ligamentous Injuries
Radio Frequency Ablation – Rhizotomy
Spinal Cord StimulationMedical School
University of Illinois at Chicago
Residency
Temple University, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Fellowship
Emory University, Interventional Pain Management
Specialty
Sciatica
Disc Herniations
Facetogenic Pain
Muscle Spasms and Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Post-laminectomy pain syndromes
SI Joint Dysfunction
Spinal Stenosis
Radiculopathies
Peripheral Nerve Injuries
Tendonitis/Bursitis
Acute Painful Traumatic Injury
Sports Related InjuryLocations
East Coast & Central Florida
