Interventional pain procedures
Patient selection, technique, documentation, follow-up, and complications related to spine injections and other image-guided procedures.
Ketan Chopra, MD
Pain medicine expert witness review.
Independent analysis of interventional procedures, chronic pain treatment, medication management, nerve injury, and causation for plaintiff and defense counsel.
Fellowship-trained pain medicine expertise.
Dr. Chopra is a fellowship-trained, board-certified pain medicine physician who remains in active clinical practice in Metro Detroit. His review focuses on the medical record, the clinical rationale for treatment, accepted practice, relevant complications, and whether the claimed injury is medically attributable to the care at issue. He accepts matters from attorneys in Michigan and nationwide.
Common areas of review
Interventional and longitudinal pain care.
Diagnostic blocks and radiofrequency ablation
Clinical rationale, diagnostic criteria, response assessment, procedural technique, and subsequent treatment decisions.
Epidural and spine injections
Indications, consent, anticoagulation, medication selection, procedural complications, neurologic injury, and post-procedure care.
Chronic pain management
Longitudinal assessment, multimodal treatment, functional goals, documentation, monitoring, and modification of the treatment plan.
Opioid and medication management
Patient selection, risk assessment, prescribing, monitoring, adverse effects, opioid tolerance, and medication-related complications.
Nerve injury and causation
Anatomic and clinical correlation, the timing and nature of symptoms, alternative causes, and the relationship between a procedure and claimed injury.
Request an initial case screen.
Send party names, jurisdiction, side represented, relevant deadlines, and a concise nonconfidential summary of the pain medicine issue.