
Don't let pain
control your life
Let the specialty trained pain specialist at Metro Spine Pain Centers help you manage your pain and maintain your active lifestyle.

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You Need!
We understand the impact of pain on your life, and we and are here to help you alleviate your pain and restore the quality of your life.

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Pain-Free
Metro Spine Pain Centers offer long-lasting, non-surgical solutions to alleviate back, neck, joint, and nerve pain caused by injury, heredity, and aging. Dr. George Drakes, our medical director, leads an advanced multidisciplinary team of pain relief experts that offer comprehensive diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation
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Our team of board-certified pain relief & physical medicine, rehabilitation specialists use non-invasive interventional pain management in Washington DC Area. Our techniques relieve your pain and help you live a healthy, active life.
Our goal is to enhance the quality of your life and live pain-free.
We’ll improve the quality of your life by using the most advanced and innovative methods and technologies available to mitigate your pain. We were one of the first pain practices in the area to use prolotherapy and platelet rich plasma (PRP therapy). With our strong ties to medical research and academia, we keep abreast of the most advanced innovations in pain management techniques, such as image guided intervention, to achieve the fastest and most effective outcome for you as possible.
Our goal is to empower you to be your best advocate in your quest to overcome your pain and maintain a high quality of life. Conquering your pain is our goal and we want you to achieve positive results and feel the elation of each victory that you realize in your pain battle.
We want to inspire you to take an active role and team with us to understand and remedy your pain. Together as a team, we can tackle your pain challenges and restore you to optimal health.
Our Treatments
Our clinics offer effective pain treatment with a team of physicians and mid-level providers, who are experts in multiple disciplines of pain intervention medicine.
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How can we help injured workers?
How can we help injured workers?
Millions of people are injured each year in auto accidents. A motor vehicle crash can generate enormous amounts of force, and this force is almost always transmitted into the body of the vehicle’s occupants.
Our physicians’ diagnostic tools are the same as those used by other doctors, with the addition of special techniques in electro diagnostic medicine, like electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction studies. These techniques help our providers to diagnose conditions that cause pain, weakness, and numbness.
Great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease.



Frequently Asked Questions about Pain Management
You should plan to spend approximately TWO HOURS in our office for your initial consultation. When you arrive, check in with our receptionist. The receptionist will assist you in completing the new patient paperwork and take your photo for our confidential electronic records.
Some additional brief forms you will be asked to fill out are:
- Registration information – name, address, contact numbers, insurance coverage
- Medication agreement – necessary if you are, or might be, prescribed narcotics
- Medical records release to obtain records from other providers
You will then be escorted to an examination room where the medical assistant will take your vital signs, collect a preliminary urine specimen (if you already take, or may be prescribed, a narcotic medication), and input some basic information on the computer record, such as your primary complaint, any medical problems that may be related to your pain or future treatment, and a review of your overall health.
You will next be seen by a pain management specialist. This initial consultation allows for a more detailed investigation of the pain problem, including:
- an extensive review of your pain history and prior treatment(s)
- a focused physical exam
- a discussion of the treatment plan
- addressing your questions or concerns
The treatment plan developed from this initial meeting will be used to guide your future course. It is not set in concrete, and may change slightly or even dramatically as treatment responses are assessed or new technologies are indicated or become available.
It is possible that no formal treatment may be started on the first visit. This decision is based on a number of factors, such as:
- Need for a specific injection which must generally be scheduled for another day
- Availability of adequate past records
- Possibility of illicit drug use
It is easy to feel paranoid that we are singling YOU out. This is not so. There are two main reasons for doing urine testing and pill counts on a regular basis:
First: SAFETY!
Any one taking narcotics is carefully monitored because severe (sometimes fatal) reactions can occur in overusing these meds, or combining them with illicit medications and street drugs. We use a variety of tools to include physical assessment, patient’s daily activities, pill counts, and urine testing. Urine testing validates the presence of the drug we prescribe, and the absence of potentially dangerous drugs we do not. Pill counts verify that the medication has not been overused or sold.
Second: COMPLIANCE!
The Drug Enforcement Agency mandates that we make a very serious effort to identify and report any potential drug abuse and/or diversion among patients using narcotics for pain management. Also, the State Medical Board mandates that we follow its guidelines for good medical care to include random drug screening for all patients taking narcotics chronically. Therefore, urine testing and pill count results protect both the patient and the provider from legal ramifications.
When you or your referring provider’s office make an appointment over the telephone at Metro Spine, our Patient Coordinator will begin to collect very basic but necessary information regarding your medical history and reason(s) for seeking help at Metro spine. Metro Spine must generally receive medical records from your referring health care provider (if you have one) prior to your first visit.
Please help us gather the following types of information relevant to your pain issue. Some may already have been forwarded by your referring provider. Our Patient Coordinator will review exactly what you need to bring:
- Identification card or driver’s license
- Insurance card
- Pertinent medical records
- A list of all medications you are currently taking or have taken in the past year
- X-ray reports (and/or disk copy – preferable)
- MRI reports (and/or disk copy – preferable)
- CT reports (and/or disk copy – preferable)
- EMG reports
- Lab results
- Anything else you feel is important for your consultation
If you would like to further expedite the check-in process you can print and complete the registration forms available on our website and fill them out prior to your appointment day.
