Spine Care Institute of San Francisco
San Francisco, California 94109 United States
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Hoyman Minx Hong, MD, San Francisco, CA 94109
Dr. Hong is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is board eliligible in Pain Management and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Hong is an Interventional Physiatrist for the Spine Care Institute of San Francisco and the Center for Sports Medicine at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. He earned his medical degree from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI and trained in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, CA. He performed a fellowship in interventional spine and sports medicine, at the prestigious Hospital for Spinal Surgery in New York City. This training focused on inter-disciplinary approaches to conditions and diseases that affect the spine and peripheral musculoskeletal system.
Dr. Hong specializes in aggressive diagnostic and non-surgical, minimally invasive conservative treatment for conditions and diseases of the spine and peripheral musculoskeletal system, including flouroscopically guided epidural steriod, facet, and radiofrequency denervation, intradiscal catherization, discography, and electrodiagnostic studies.
Dr. Hoyman Minx Hong is a Physiatrist with Spine Care Institute of San Francisco.
Type of Spine Care Professional
Areas Served
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- Arm pain
- Arthritis
- Back pain
- Chronic pain
- Coccydynia
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Degenerative disc disease
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Foot drop
- Foot pain
- Fracture
- Kyphosis
- Leg pain
- Lower back pain
- Muscle pain / muscle strain
- Neck disorders
- Neck pain
- Nerve pain / neuralgia
- Osteoporosis
- Piriformis syndrome
- Sacroiliac joint dysfunction
- Sciatica / radiculopathy
- Shoulder pain
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Upper back pain
- Whiplash
Treatments
- Botulinum toxin injections, e.g., BOTOX
- Bracing
- Caudal injections
- Electrotherapy, e.g. TENS
- Epidural steroid injection - cervical
- Epidural steroid injection - lumbar
- Ergonomics and posture
- Exercise
- Facet joint injections / blocks
- Facet rhizotomy injection
- Heat / ice therapy
- Hip joint injections
- IDET
- Injections
- Knee injections
- Kyphoplasty
- Medial branch nerve blocks
- Medications for pain and related health issues
- Nerve blocks
- Nerve testing
- Osteoporosis testing / treatments
- Pain management
- Pain pumps
- Percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
- Peripheral joint and muscular injections
- Physiatry
- Physical medicine & rehabilitation
- Radiofrequency procedures
- Sacrococcygeal injections
- Sacroiliac joint injections / blocks
- Scoliosis treatment - non-surgical
- Shoulder injections
- Soft tissue injections
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Sports medicine
- Sympathetic ganglion blocks
- Traction
- Transforaminal injections
- Trigger point injections
Other Treatments
- Percutaneous Disc Decompression
Professional Affiliations
- NASS
Certifications
- Board Certified, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Board Eligible, Pain Management and Electrodiagnostic Medicine
Professional Distinctions
- Hospital Fellowship for Special Surgery, 2001