My name is Dr. Nicholas Nacey. I'm a Musculoskeletal Radiologist at the University of Virginia, and I specialize in various musculoskeletal radiology procedures, mostly in pain management, so we do lots of steroid injections in joints. Pretty much any joint throughout the body. We also do spine injections, so we see a lot of patients who are in chronic pain. I find those to be satisfying procedures because I think we're able to help a large number of people.

Within our practice we've also been doing the Tenex procedure for patients with tennis elbow, or plantar fascitis. Those are both difficult to treat conditions. What the procedure does is basically we use a needle to break up the diseased tendon or plantar fascia tissue, and then your body regenerates with healthier tissue and over time patients have improved from that. It's a way basically to do the procedure less invasively than say a surgery, and therefore have less complications.

Musculoskeletal radiology within radiology is an area where there's very intricate anatomy, and I think that's where a musculoskeletal radiologist really comes into play. We have subspecialized training, we know a lot about that anatomy, we know a lot about the pathology in that area, and I think that's why coming to the University of Virginia to interpret your scans, that we really have the extra expertise to be able to see things that other people aren't going to see out at other radiology practices.