Orthopaedic Associates of Bethlehem

Gene V. Levinstein, M.D.

Board Certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Gene V. Levinstein, M.D. is trained in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with pain of spinal origin, occupational and sports related injuries, joint, nerve and musculoskeletal ailments.

Dr. Levinstein is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Specializing in Interventional Spine Care, he is skilled in neuromuscular-skeletal rehabilitation and minimally invasive non-surgical spinal treatments. He performs interventional diagnostic testing, such as discography, selective nerve root blocks and electrodiagnostic testing. He is versed in the use of injection therapy, including fluoroscopically guided spinal/epidural injections, facet and medial branch blocks, peripheral joint injections, trigger point injections and minimally invasive spinal interventions. These interventions include techniques such as vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty for traumatic or osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, radiofrequency dorsal rhizotomy for facet arthritis, epidural injections for spinal stenosis and radiculopathy and spinal cord stimulator placement for failed back/post-laminectomy syndrome. He specializes in minimally invasive non-surgical treatments such as IDET, PERC-D and Accutherm for lumbar disc degeneration and herniation.

After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Levinstein held a Medical Internship at Graduate Hospital and a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Following the completion of residency in 2005, Dr. Levinstein continued his sub-specialty training with a fellowship in Interventional Spine and Pain Management at Performance Spine and Sports Physicians, P.C. in Pottstown, PA.

Dr. Levinstein is an active lecturer and physician educator speaking both locally and nationally on the topics of minimally invasive spinal interventions, injections, and rehabilitative spine care. He is also fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.

Dr. Levinstein is an active member of numerous professional organizations including, the Physiatric Association of Spine, Sports, and Occupational Rehabilitation, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the North American Spine Society, and the International Spinal Injection Society.

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