Dr. See L. Chin's Credentials

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Biography

Dr. See Chin is double board certified in anesthesiology and interventional pain management and delivers the highest quality of care at Pain Relief Associates in an advanced, self-contained center. Dr. See Chin and his expert staff treat patients suffering from a variety of acute and chronic painful conditions. Dr. Chin performs a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and surgeries, including epidurals, transforaminal nerve blocks, sympathetic blocks, facet and sacroiliac joint injections, radiofrequency lesioning, provocative discography, annuloplasty, nucleoplasty, spinal cord stimulation, kyphoplasty/vertebroplasty, joint injections (shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, ankle, etc.), Botox, Myobloc, migraine and headache injections, and viscosupplementation (Synvisc, Hyalgan, Euflexxa, etc.). Dr. Chin received his interventional pain management training at Cleveland Clinic, rated one of the top hospitals in the nation. He received his anesthesiology training at SUNY Downstate, one of the highest ranked departments in the North, and one of the leading programs in the nation. Prior to his medical training, Dr. Chin worked for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Boeing as an aerospace engineer. Dr. Chin is a highly active member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia, the International Spine Intervention Society, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

Languages

• Cantonese
• Spanish
• Chinese
• Mandarin
• Vietnamese

Education

• Purdue University
• State University of New York Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn *
• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Areas of Expertise

• Fluoroscopically guided spinal injections
• Slipped Disc
• Kyphoplasty (for vertebral fractures)
• Joint Injection (Knee, Shoulder, and Hip)
• Ultrasound Guided Injections
• Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injections
• Occipital Headache Treatments
• Greater Occipital Nerve Block
• Botulinum toxin injections (Botox, Xeomin, Myobloc, Dysport)
• Bursae injections including scapulothoracic, trochanteric, and subacromial
• Wrist and Elbow Pain
• Radiofrequency Facet Denervation: Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar ​​
• Complex Regional Pain Syndromes; RSD
• Spinal headaches
• Bulging Discs
• Trigger Point/bursa Steroid Injections
• Cervical dystonia
• Occipital Nerve Blocks and Botox Injections for Headache
• Discogram
• Lumbar & Cervical Facet Joint/Medial Branch
• Spine Fractures
• Pudendal Nerve Block
• Sacroiliac Joint Injections
• Back Pain, Hip Pain, Knee Pain And More
• Wrist pain
• Lumbar Spine
• Lumbar Radiculopathy (Scatica)
• Sacroiliitis
• Knee pain
• Spinal Cord Stimulation ( SCS )
• Fluoroscopy
• Knee Joint Injections: PRP, Synvisc, Hyalgan, Orthovisc, Euflexxa, Supartz, Nuflexxa
• Live Image X-ray - Fluoroscopy
• Myofascial pain syndrome
• Radiculopathy
• Sciatica/Herniated Discs
• Genicular Nerve Block
• Headache & Migraine Pain Relief
• Thoracic Facet Block Injections
• Lumbar / Thoracic / Cervical Transforaminal
• Radiofrequency Ablation
• Lumbar and cervical radiculopathy (arm/leg pain, numbness, tingling, weakness)
• Migraine Treatments
• Intra-articular Fluoroscopic Joint Injections
• Botox
• Headache or Migraine Pain
• Ultrasound Guidance Procedures
• Kyphoplasty/Vertebroplasty
• RSD
• Knee Joint Injections
• Lumbar disc herniation/bulge
• Joint Injection
• Trigeminal nerve block
• Lumbar Medial Branch Radiofrequency Neurotomy
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Kyphoplasty & Vertebroplasty
• Radicular Pain/Sciatica
• Shoulder Joint Injections
• Kyphoplasty
• Tension headache
• Botox For Migraine Headache, Facial spasm, dystonia
• Low & Mid Back Pain
• Sacriliac Joint Injection
• Fluoroscopic Guided Hyalgan Injection
• Epidural injection (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, caudal)
• Foot & Ankle Injuries
• Headaches & Migraines
• Neck pain
• Migraines
• Knee Pain Injections
• Cervical & thoracic radio frequency ablation procedures
• Lumbar Spondylosis
• Cervical spondylosis
• Complex regional pain syndrome
• Herniated Discs
• Herniated And Bulging Discs
• Herniated Disc
• Cervical and Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections (ESI’s)
• Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty
• Arthritis/Facet Syndrome
• Facet and sacroiliac joint injections
• Herniated lumbar discs
• Epidural Steroid injection under Fluoroscopy
• Spine Fracture Treatment
• Tendon And Bursa Injection
• Cervical and Lumbar Facet Joint Injections
• Greater trochanteric bursitis
• Ultrasound Guided Cortisone Injections
• Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy
• Facet Arthritis
• Back Pain
• Degenerative Disc Disease (ddd)
• Ultrasound Guided Trigger Point Injections
• Cervical Radiculopathy, Herniated Disc, Lower Back Problems And More
• Headache/Migraine Therapies
• Herniated cervical discs
• Radiofrequency Ablation of Joints ( RFA )
• Joint injections (hip, sacroiliac, shoulder, knee, elbow, wrist, hand, ankle or foot)
• Kyphoplasty (vertebral Augmentation)
• Nerve Block Injections
• Greater Occipital Nerve Blocks for Migraines
• Thoracic Radiofrequency Ablation
• Thoracic Facet Joint Injection
• Cervicogenic headache
• Facet Joint / Nerve Injection includes Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar
• Trigger Point / Coccyx Injection
• Botox For Migraine Headaches
• Radiofrequency Ablasion
• Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (crps)
• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Joint And Bursa Injections
• Hip Pain
• Lumbar puncture (spinal tap)
• Neck & Shoulder Pain
• Fluoroscopy Guided Spine Injection
• Elbow Joint Injections
• Cervical and Lumbar Radiculpathy
• Spondylosis
• Lumbar (or Thoracic) Sympathetic Block
• Radiculopathy (pinched nerve)
• Herniated disk
• Facet Joint & Nerve Injections
• Occipital Blocks
• Herniated Disc (Back and Neck)
• Bursa Injections
• Lumbar / Cervical / Thoracic Epidural Steroid Injection
• Back pain due to disk disease and herniation
• Facet Joint Treatments
• Shoulder Pain
• Intercostal Nerve Block
• Vertebroplasty/kyphoplastytrigger Point/bursa Steroid Injections
• Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome or
• Peripheral Nerve Blocks
• Cervical and Lumbar Discogram
• CRPS
• Lumbar Radiofrequency Ablation
• Herniated Disc Treatment
• Chronic Pelvic Pain

Awards & Recognitions

• State University of New York at Downstate Chief Resident 2013-2014
• Cleveland Clinic Pain Management Chief Fellow 2014-2015

Publications & Research

• Incomplete Gene Structure Prediction with Almost 100% Specificity
• A New Radiofrequency Ablation Procedure to Treat Sacroiliac Joint Pain
• Automated Liver Segmentation Using a Normalized Probabilistic Atlas
• Anatomical Variability of Organs via Principal Factor Analysis from the Construction of an Abdominal Probabilistic Atlas