Marc A. Caragea, DO

Education

• Fellowship: Interventional Spine and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
• Residency: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
• Residency-Transitional Year: USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Blake Medical Center, Bradenton, FL
• Medical School: Medical School University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX
• Undergraduate: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Memberships & Associations 

• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• American Osteopathic Association
• International Pain and Spine Intervention Society
• North American Spine Society
• Committee Participation
• International Pain and Spine Intervention Society – Evidence Analysis Committee
• International Pain and Spine Intervention Society – Sustainability Task Force
• North American Spine Society – Online Content Committee

Publications

• Caragea M, Essman M, Conger A, et al (2025) Management of post-arthroplasty pain: a narrative review of emerging interventional treatments. Pain Management, 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1080/17581869.2025.249046
• Brown T, Caragea M, et al (2025) Evaluating the effectiveness of genicular radiofrequency ablation for chronic knee pain using the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) global health-physical health domain: Results of a cross-sectional cohort study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 4 (1),100539, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100539
• Braun S, Mascoe J, Caragea M, et al (2024) The association of payer type on genicular radiofrequency neurotomy treatment outcomes: Results of a cross-sectional studyc. Interventional Pain Medicine, 3 (2),100407,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100407
• Caragea M, Le A, Curtis T, et al (2024) The effect of lumbar medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy on cobb angle progression in individuals with adult scoliosis compared to natural history: A cross-sectional study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 3 (2),100411, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2024.100411
• Caragea M, Le A, Curtis T, et al (2023) Does medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy accelerate degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis compared to natural progression ? A cross-sectional cohort study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 2 (4),100289, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2023.100289
• Miller S, Caragea M, Carson D, McFarland M, Teramoto M, Cushman D, Cooper A, Burnham T, McCormick Z, Conger A, The effectiveness of intradiscal corticosteroid injection for the treatment of chronic discovertebral low back pain: a systematic review, Pain Medicine, 2023; pnad127, https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnad127
• Caragea M, Woodworth T, Curtis T, et al (2023) Genicular Nerve Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Chronic Knee Joint Pain: A Real-world Cohort Study with Evaluation of Prognostic Factors. Pain Med. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnad095
• Mascoe J, Caragea M, et al (2023) The Association of Payer Type on Genicular Radiofrequency Neurotomy Treatment Outcomes: Results of a Cross-Sectional Cohort Study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 2 (2),100344, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2023.100344
• Eby S, Lider J, Teramoto M, Caragea M, Lash M Cushman D (2022). Sonographic peripheral nerve dimensions, excluding median and ulnar nerves: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Muscle Nerve. https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.27783
• Levin J, Li W, Gall N, Chan J, Caragea M, Huynh L, Koltsov J, Smuck M (2022). Results of Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections Based on the Physician Referral Source. Interventional Pain Medicine, 1 (3),100114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2022.100114
• Reisinger R, Caragea M, Teramoto M, Shipman H, Berry-Rieser D, Oli M, Kendall R, Burnham T, Conger A, McCormick Z (2022). The Association of Payer Type and Opioid Use on Functional Improvement at Short-Term Follow-up after Lumbosacral Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection: Results of a Large Registry Study. Interventional Pain Medicine, 1(2), 100073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2022.100073
• Burnham T, Clements N, Conger A, Kuo K, Lider J, Caragea M, Kendall R, Cunningham S, Meiling J, Teramoto M, McCormick Z (2022). A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Cervical Medial Branch Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Facet Joint Syndrome in Patients Selected by Two Common Medial Branch Block Paradigms. Interventional Pain Medicine, 1(2), 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2022.100091
• Levin J, Chan J, Huynh L, Smuck M, Koltsov J, Kesikburun B, Wagner G, Caragea M, Kuo K, McCormick Z, Schneider B, Berlin E, Kennedy D, Kesikburun S (2021). Thoracic Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection for Management of Thoracic Spine Pain: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study of Short-Term Outcomes. Interventional Pain Medicine, 1(1), 100004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inpm.2021.100004
• Cushman DM, Carefoot A, Lisenby S, Caragea M, Fogg B, Conger A (2021). A Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Corticosteroid Injections of Tendon Sheaths, Excluding Stenosing Tenosynovitis of the Wrist and Hand. Am J Phys Med Rehabil, 100(7), 683-688. https://doi.org/10.1097/phm.0000000000001609

Book Chapters:

• William PF, Niacaris T, Caragea M, Lichtman DM (2017). Minimally Invasive Techniques for the Treatment of Kienbock’s Disease. In Lichtman DM, Gregory IB (Eds.), Kienbock’s Disease (pp. 169-174). Fort Worth, TX: Springer.