Daniel Nelson, MD, is board-certified in anesthesiology, with special certification in interventional pain medicine. He has a special interest in chronic neck and low back pain, joint pain, chronic post-surgical pain, occipital and cervicogenic headache, cancer pain, refractory arthritis pain and regenerative medicine including the treatment of arthritis with stem cell and platelet rich plasma injection therapy.

 

Dr. Nelson attended medical school at the University of Southern California and completed his internship and residency in anesthesiology at USC-L.A. County Hospital Medical Center where he was elected chief resident. He continued on after residency for training as a Pain Medicine Fellow and started the Pain Management program at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs, California.

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After returning to the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Nelson started the Pain Medicine department at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, WA and established one of the first full-spectrum independent pain medicine clinics in the area. He is a founding member and Director-at-Large of the Washington Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He gives guest lecturers at the University of Washington for their pain medicine fellowship program and has been actively involved in the teaching of pain fellows, medical students and physician assistants. He has also served as a consultant and speaker to a variety of organizations. 

 

Specializations: 

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• Diagnostic and therapeutic injections under fluoroscopy and ultrasound of the spine and the musculoskeletal system.

• Radiofrequency ablation procedures.

• Patient screening, trialing, and implantation of implantable pain medical devices including spinal cord stimulators and implantable spinal pain pumps.

• Interventional approaches to chronic headache, abdominal/pelvic pain, arthritis, and cancer pain.

• Vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty treatment of non-operative spinal compression fractures.

• Stem cell/PRP injections of inoperable knee, hip and shoulder pain.