Dr. Sudhir Rao is the Medical Director of Pain and Spine Specialists, a premiere pain management practice in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. As the medical director, Dr. Rao leads a team of highly specialized and skilled physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners.
Dr. Rao earned his Bachelor of Sciences in Bio-Psychology from the University of Michigan. He obtained his Medical Doctorate from St. George’s University School of Medicine. Through his internship in Internal Medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, he learned a great deal about the pathophysiology of the human body. As a Fellow at Mt. Sinai College of Medicine Dr. Rao specialized in Interventional Pain Medicine. He went on to work as an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine educating other fellows and residents.
He feels honored that he was able to work at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, Texas and support members of the armed forces and military veterans. …Dr. Rao assisted in enhancing and elevating the pain clinic designated for active-duty soldiers with war-related chronic pain symptoms. He was the first to introduce the use of the spinal cord stimulator as an effective pain management technique. The spinal cord stimulation therapy was an immediate success at Ford Hood, and treated many chronic neuropathic pain patients.
Dr. Rao started the Pain and Spine Specialists practice in 2012 and has expanded to over 20 locations throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Dr. Rao opened this practice to devote his medical talent towards superior patient care. Dr. Rao, his clinical staff and all members of the Pain and Spine Specialists practice strive to always provide a patient-centered environment that supports each individual in their health journeys.

• Frederick Health Hospital

Pain and Spine Specialist Of Maryland - Mt. Airy

2702 Back Acre Cir Ste 290B

Mount Airy

MD

21771

USA

(301) 842-8495

https://painandspinespecialists.com

• Anesthesiology

• Facet Injections for neck and back pain
• Herniated Discs Treatments
• Pelvic Pain
• Work and Auto related injury evaluations
• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Radiofrequency ablation
• Discography
• Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• Ultrasound-Guided Injections
• Trigger point injection
• Nerve Blocks
• Vertebroplasty
• Epidural
• Epidural Steroid Injection (ESI)
• Kyphoplasty
• Lysis of Adhesion
• Neuromodulation
• Chronic Management
• Ultrasound guided minimally invasive techniques
• Medial Branch Block
• Indirect Lumbar Spinal Decompression (Vertiflex Superion)
• Spinal Cord Surgery
• Rehabilitation for Sports Injuries
• TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Cervical epidural steroid injection
• Cervical Screening
• Thoracic epidural injection
• Inflammation Treatment
• Lumbar Decompression Surgery
• Transforaminal Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection

• Back Pain
• Sciatica
• Neck Pain
• Bulging Disc
• Intercostal Neuralgia
• Work-related Injury
• Pelvic Pain
• Postherpetic Neuralgia
• Cancer Pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Occipital Neuralgia
• Headaches
• Vertebral Compression Fracture
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Ultrasound- & Fluroscopic-Guided Nerve Block
• Diagnostic Discography
• Cervical & Lumbar
• Under Fluoroscopy
• Occipital nerve blocks
• Radiofrequency Neurotomy of the Lumbar Facets
• Joint Arthritis
• Joint Pain
• Chronic Pain
• Injury Pain
• Chronic Headache
• Sports injury
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Acute Inflammation
• Lumbar Disc Herniation
• Thoracic Pain
• Radicular Pain