Southwest Florida Pain Center

Francesca M

Update - My pain is now a 10/10. The “diagnostic” facet joint injections seemed to have made things worse. I kind of feel the victim of age discrimination. I’m 41, but look young for my age. When I told the doctor I have had RFA he said that I was awfully young to have had that done. I am retired on disability and my former occupation caused a lot of wear and tear on my neck. I just don’t know how you can say I’d probably get relief from facet joint injections without any diagnostics (no images, no records and no physical examinations). I moved from VA to FL recently and needed to find someone to continue my pain and spine treatment. I had Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) in VA and needed to find a doctor in FL to administer the RFA again as my neck really began to hurt again. I asked repeatedly for them to obtain my records from my previous doctor so they would know where to do the ablation again (not entirely their fault as my previous doctor’s office was unresponsive for weeks). Prior to getting the records they gave me facet join injections as a diagnostic measure to see where they needed to do the RFA again. Mind you the doctor simply looked at me to make this determination and did no examination of me. Didn’t even feel my neck or back. Anyway, the injections did nothing. I feel worse in fact. I have called repeatedly for weeks for a muscle relaxer to be called in until I can have the RFA again and no one will call me back. I don’t understand why you would administer a diagnostic procedure before checking my records to see where I had the RFA done before (since that actually worked). Anyway I’m going to have to find a new spine and pain doctor in FL. Also, when I called to cancel an upcoming appointment and let them know I was unhappy with their treatment I was told okay, best of luck. Didn’t even ask why. Goes to show they probably get this sort of thing a lot.

Diane Niebrzydowski

Dr Valente and his staff are professional and 100% what you should expect from a pain center. They definitely hold the bar high. The pain relief from the radio frequency nerve oblation has given me my life back. Diane Miller

stewart gable

Been going there for a year . Excellent service and Dr. Ball is Excellent.

Jerry & Lorie “Woody” Widmann

They are fantastic if its not snowbird season and you can get in! I been waiting 2 months. I've been waiting over 2 months and I'm hurting! Nobody cares!!