Start with the full picture.
History, exam, imaging review, prior treatment response, medications, and functional goals shape the first plan.
Serving Houston and Webster
Image-guided care for spine, joint, and nerve pain
Board-certified pain specialists
Find the source. Target the pain. Get back to life.
When back, neck, joint, nerve, or spine pain will not let up, Gulf Coast Pain & Spine starts with the question that matters most: what is actually generating the pain — and what can be done about it?
Diagnosis firstSymptoms, exam findings, imaging, and prior care all shape the next step.
Precise proceduresImage-guided injections, radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, SI-joint care, and other advanced options are considered when appropriate.
Two officesHouston and Webster offices · Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Interventional, multimodal pain care for patients who need careful screening, clear options, and a practical next step.
Call (832) 916-2075 →
Houston Chronicle recognition
Voted Best of the Best Winner by Houston Chronicle.
Alongside 850+ Google reviews, this local recognition gives new patients another reason to feel confident choosing Gulf Coast Pain & Spine.
850+ Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating highlight physician trust, staff warmth, clean offices, and clear communication.
Specialist training
Board-certified pain physicians
Care is led by fellowship-trained pain physicians, with diagnostic blocks, imaging review, and advanced procedure planning.
First visit clarity
Bring imaging, records, and questions.
The team reviews history, imaging, prior treatment response, medications, insurance/referral needs, and goals before recommending the next step.
The Gulf Coast approach
A calmer path from symptoms to a reasoned plan.
Most patients arrive with more than pain — they bring imaging, prior injections, medications, work limits, sleep disruption, and questions about what is still possible. The first job is to organize that story clearly.
Confirm the likely source.
When appropriate, diagnostic injections and image-guided evaluation help clarify whether pain is disc, facet, nerve, SI-joint, or joint driven.
Match care to the diagnosis.
Procedures, therapy coordination, medications, and advanced options are selected around the patient’s problem and goals.
Comprehensive pain care
A serious medical pathway, presented with calm and clarity.
Patients come in with real limitations: work, sleep, family, walking, lifting, travel. The care pathway is built to clarify the likely source of pain and explain the next reasonable option before treatment begins.
See conditions treated
Conditions we evaluate
Pain patterns deserve specific answers.
Spine, back, joint, nerve, post-surgical, and chronic pain patterns treated by interventional pain specialists. Headache care is not a focus of the practice.
Back pain that changes how you move
Pain with standing, bending, sitting, lifting, or walking may point toward disc, facet, stenosis, fracture, or SI-joint sources.
Explore back pain → Pain down the legNumbness, tingling, burning, or electric pain often starts with determining which nerve pathway is irritated.
Explore sciatica → Neck pain with arm symptomsUpper back discomfort, shoulder pain, hand numbness, or arm pain deserve careful cervical spine and nerve evaluation.
Explore neck pain → Pain after spine surgeryPersistent symptoms after surgery need a fresh look at imaging, nerve patterns, and prior treatment response.
Explore options → Shoulder, hip, knee, or SI painJoint and pelvis pain can require different diagnostic questions before treatment is selected.
Explore joint pain →
Image-guided treatment options
Understand your options before treatment begins.
Clear illustrations help patients understand how common image-guided procedures are intended to work. Your physician will explain whether a procedure fits your diagnosis, imaging, and goals.
Diagnostic + therapeutic
Epidural Steroid Injection
A common fluoroscopy-guided, non-surgical option that may help selected neck, back, arm, or leg pain when inflammation around spinal nerves is part of the problem.
Learn about epidurals →
Radiofrequency Ablation
Uses controlled heat energy to disrupt selected pain-signal pathways, usually after diagnostic medial branch blocks support the target.
Spinal Cord Stimulation
A featured advanced option for selected chronic nerve pain that uses epidural leads and a trial period before permanent implantation is considered.
SI Fusion, SI Joint + Trigger Point Injections
From selected SI fusion pathways to fluoroscopy or ultrasound-guided injections, precise guidance can help place medication accurately when the SI joint, spine, pelvis, or extremity joint is suspected.
Physician-led care
Care led by fellowship-trained interventional pain specialists.
Your care is guided by physicians trained in anesthesiology and interventional pain medicine, with dedicated profiles available when you want to review background, focus areas, and credentials.
Meet the physicians
Purvi Patel, MDFounder · anesthesiology residency and interventional pain medicine fellowship at UMDNJ–Robert Wood JohnsonView profile →
Divya Janardhanan, MDBrigham pain fellowship, Baylor anesthesiology chief resident, and AOA / Gold Humanism honorsView profile →
GaToya Simpson, MDUTMB Galveston pain fellowship with advanced neuromodulation and kyphoplasty trainingView profile →
Access
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Houston and Webster offices. One clear request.
Gulf Coast Pain & Spine — Houston
13009 Gulf Commerce Dr, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77034. Appointments, referrals, and treatment planning for Greater Houston patients.
- Call (832) 916-2075
- Bring imaging reports if available
Gulf Coast Pain & Spine — Webster
1015 W. Medical Center Blvd, Suite 2800, Webster, TX 77598. Convenient access for Bay Area, Clear Lake, and southeast Houston patients.
- Call (832) 916-2075
- Helpful for Bay Area and Clear Lake access
Start with clarity
If pain keeps interrupting your life, start with a specialist who can help clarify the source.
Call the practice or request an appointment online. The team can help match your symptoms to the right visit, location, and next step.