Pain management, done at the same standard.
NCSS's medical director, Dr. Rand Scott, is a board-certified anesthesiologist with a subspecialty in pain management. He founded Newport Pain Management in 1996 — the same year NCSS opened — and continues to see pain patients at that practice. When those patients need interventional procedures, he performs them here.
What separates the pain program at NCSS from the typical pain clinic: ultrasound guidance rather than fluoroscopy. Radiofrequency ablation and sympathetic blocks — two techniques that have fallen out of favor in the pain literature for their limited long-term benefit — are not offered. What is offered is what actually helps: precise, ultrasound-guided injections of steroid and local anesthetic to the specific anatomic targets driving your pain, performed by the physician himself in an accredited operating room.
The other separator: no radiation. Fluoroscopy exposes both the patient and the physician to cumulative X-ray dose across a lifetime of injections. Ultrasound uses no radiation at all. For patients receiving multiple injections over time, this is not a trivial consideration.
Five blocks. All ultrasound-guided.
Interventional pain procedures with high-quality evidence of benefit — nothing offered that the literature no longer supports.
Epidural Steroid Injections
Ultrasound-GuidedCervical, thoracic, lumbar, and caudal epidural injections for radicular pain and disc herniation — offered only for indications the current literature supports.
Learn more →Facet Joint Injections
Ultrasound-GuidedCervical and lumbar facet joint injections and medial branch blocks — for facet-mediated back and neck pain.
Learn more →Sacroiliac Joint Injections
Ultrasound-GuidedSI joint injections for sacroiliac dysfunction, post-partum SI pain, and SI arthritis — often both diagnostic and therapeutic.
Learn more →Genicular Nerve Blocks
Ultrasound-GuidedGenicular blocks for knee osteoarthritis pain and post-total-knee-arthroplasty pain — a superficial-nerve target ideally suited to ultrasound guidance.
Learn more →Trigger Point Therapy
Ultrasound-GuidedMyofascial trigger points — the hyperirritable muscle nodules that produce local pain, referred pain, and chronic muscle tension.
Learn more →One physician. The medical director himself.
All interventional pain procedures at NCSS are performed by Dr. Rand Scott personally — not a technician, not a physician assistant, not a rotating provider.
H. Rand Scott, MD
Board-Certified Anesthesiologist · Pain Management SubspecialtyFounder of Newport Pain Management (1996) and Medical Director of NCSS. Ultrasound-guided interventional pain, no fluoroscopy. For comprehensive pain practice care, patients are also seen at Newport Pain Management adjacent to this facility.
Meet the medical director →Four reasons this practice.
The difference between a pain clinic and a surgical facility doing pain right.
No X-ray radiation to you, none to the physician. Real-time soft-tissue visualization. The modern standard for the blocks we offer.
Not a technician. Not a physician assistant. Every injection performed by Dr. Rand Scott personally.
Only procedures with high-quality literature support are offered. Techniques that have fallen out of favor — radiofrequency ablation, sympathetic blocks — are not part of our program.
Every pain injection at NCSS is performed in an AAAHC-accredited operating room with the same monitoring, sterility, and physician oversight as our surgical cases.
The right starting point is a conversation.
Every scheduled surgical patient is offered a free Rest-Assure pre-operative consultation with Dr. Rand Scott personally — medical history, medication planning, and discharge coordination before the day of surgery.
Call (949) 644-8182Monday–Thursday, 8am–3pm · Friday by appointment only.
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