Interventional pain procedures
Patient selection, technique, documentation, follow-up, and complications related to spine injections and other image-guided procedures.
Ketan Chopra, MD
Michigan pain medicine expert witness.
Independent analysis of interventional procedures, chronic pain treatment, medication management, nerve injury, and causation for plaintiff and defense counsel.
Pain medicine expertise based in Metro Detroit.
Dr. Chopra is a fellowship-trained, board-certified pain medicine physician who remains in active clinical practice in Metro Detroit. He completed his pain medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan. 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.
Put the procedure in context.
A pain medicine review starts with the clinical history, the purpose of treatment, and the procedure actually performed. The evaluation may require original imaging, procedure and medication records, documented follow-up, and the later clinical course. A brief procedure summary may not contain enough detail to assess the questions counsel needs answered.
These attorney resources offer a starting point for organizing the file before a case-specific review.
Request an initial case screen.
Send your name and firm, jurisdiction, side represented, key deadlines, and a nonconfidential review question. Request conflict-screening and secure transfer instructions before sharing patient information.