Dr. Leon Briggs, MD, Ashland, KY, 41101
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Dr. Leon Briggs, MD, Ashland, KY, 41101
Dr. Leon Briggs, MD, is a board certified, fellowship-trained Anesthesiologist with The Center for Advanced Neuromedicine at King's Daughters Medical Center. Dr. Briggs is the Medical Director of a large, multidisciplinary center that emphasizes interventional, functional, and psychological approaches to spine pain.
Type of Spine Care Professional
Anesthesiologist
Pain Medicine and Management Physician
Pain Medicine and Management Physician
Areas Served
Eastern Kentucky
Languages
English
Areas of Expertise
Conditions
- Acute Pain
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Arm pain
- Arthritis
- Auto-related injuries
- Back pain
- Cervical spine disorders
- Chiari malformation
- Chronic pain
- Coccydynia
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Degenerative disc disease
- Degenerative spinal conditions
- Dizziness and balance disorders
- Extremity Dysfunction/Pain
- Facet syndrome
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Foot drop
- Headache / migraine
- Herniated disc / bulging disc
- Hip pain
- Joint pain
- Leg pain
- Lower back pain
- Lumbar spine disorders
- Muscle pain / muscle strain
- Neck pain
- Nerve pain / neuralgia
- Neuropathic pain
- Osteoporotic compression fracture
- Pinched nerve
- Piriformis syndrome
- Post Surgery Functional Problems
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Rotator cuff injury
- Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
- Sciatica / radiculopathy
- Scoliosis and deformity
- Shoulder pain
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal stenosis
- Spine Conditions
- Spondylolisthesis
- Sports injuries
- Tendonitis
- Thoracic spine disorders
- Trauma
- Upper back pain
- Workers' Compensation Injuries
Treatments
- Behavioral modification
- Biofeedback
- Caudal injections
- Diagnostic testing
- Electrotherapy, e.g. TENS
- Epidural steroid injection - cervical
- Epidural steroid injection - lumbar
- Ergonomics and posture
- Exercise
- Facet joint injections / blocks
- Facet rhizotomy injection
- Functional capacity evaluations
- Heat / ice therapy
- Hip joint injections
- Joint Injections
- Knee injections
- Medial branch nerve blocks
- Nerve blocks
- Peripheral joint and muscular injections
- Radiofrequency Neuroablation
- Radiofrequency procedures
- Sacrococcygeal injections
- Sacroiliac joint injections / blocks
- Shoulder injections
- Soft tissue injections
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Sympathetic ganglion blocks
- Transforaminal injections
- Trigger point injections
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Anesthesiologists
- American Academy of Pain Management
Certifications
- American Board of Anesthesiology
Professional Distinctions
- Fellowship in Interventional Pain Management