Apollo Pain Care

Jose Mena, M.D., is a board-certified physiatrist at Baptist Health Orthopedic Care. Dr. Mena specializes in diagnosing and treating spine and back injuries, diseases and disorders. He currently serves as the team pain physician for the Miami Dolphins and a team physician for FIU athletics. He is fluent in English and Spanish. Dr. Mena offers a variety of minimally invasive and noninvasive procedures to treat back problems, including sacroplasty for sacrum fractures, vertebral augmentation (balloon kyphoplasty and spine jack) for spine fractures, basivertebral nerve ablation (Intracept®), discograms/intradiscal procedures, transforaminal epidural steroid injections, facet joint interventions including radiofrequency neurotomy, sacroiliac joint injection, ultrasound-guided and fluoroscopically-guided injection of the peripheral joint, bursa injections and electrodiagnostic studies, including nerve conduction studies and electromyograms (EMG). Dr. Mena joined Baptist Health Orthopedic Care from the University of Miami Hospital & Clinics, where he served in several capacities, including as an associate residency program director in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and co-medical director of the UHealth Advanced Institute for Pain Management. Dr. Mena’s research has been published in peer-reviewed publications, including PM&R, the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and he has presented at numerous professional events and meetings. He is a question senior editor for the ABPM&R board and an ABPM&R oral board examiner. Dr. Mena also serves as an editor for the ABA pain medicine boards and is part of the ABA Pain Medicine Examination Committee. As an instructor for the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society (IPSIS, formerly SIS), he is dedicated to teaching safe and effective diagnostic and therapeutic interventional spine procedures to his peers. IPSIS instructors are among the most carefully selected faculty in interventional spine medicine.

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