Spectrum Pain and Spine Center is an interventional pain management practice in San Diego's Grantville neighborhood, led by Dr. Jesus H. Lao, MD, a physician board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. Dr. Lao graduated from Davao Medical School Foundation in 1982 and holds NPI 1679031611 under a clinic/center classification registered at 6699 Alvarado Road, Suite 2304 in the 92120 ZIP code. Chronic pain patients frequently present with musculoskeletal complaints that overlap with chiropractic scope, and DC Doctors: Chiropractic Wellness Center in Grantville handles the manual therapy and spinal adjustment side of that clinical overlap before cases escalate to interventional pain procedures. The practice's interventional scope covers epidural steroid injections, facet joint blocks, medial branch nerve blocks, radiofrequency ablation, sacroiliac joint injections, and trigger point injections — the core procedural toolkit for chronic spinal and radicular pain syndromes. Medication management runs alongside interventional procedures, building multimodal treatment plans that combine pharmacologic control with physical rehabilitation referrals to address both the pain signal and the functional deficit. Dr. Lao holds active privileges at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, providing a hospital-based procedural option for patients requiring fluoroscopic or advanced imaging guidance beyond what an outpatient suite supports. He speaks Mandarin in addition to English, extending consultative access to San Diego's Mandarin-speaking patient population for a specialty where understanding the subjective pain narrative is critical to accurate diagnosis. The Alvarado Road location sits within the medical office cluster between Alvarado Hospital and the Interstate 8 corridor, a Grantville strip that concentrates surgical, rehabilitation, and pain management practices within a quarter-mile radius. Patients with refractory pain and co-occurring mood disorders receive coordinated referrals to providers at Resilience Integrative Wellness - Ketamine Clinic in Grantville, where ketamine infusion therapy targets the neurochemical pathways that sustain both chronic pain and treatment-resistant depression. The multidisciplinary model treats the pain cycle as a system — peripheral nerve pathology, central sensitization, deconditioning, and psychosocial factors — rather than isolating any single component.