Dr. Benjamin Portal
Dr. Benjamin Portal grew up in Long Island, NY and graduated Cum Laude with a BA in Economics and a minor in Chemistry at Queens College and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Dr. Portal earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY. He completed his anesthesia residency at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY and an Interventional Pain Management Fellowship at Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY. There he was trained in cutting-edge minimally invasive image-guided treatments of spine, nerve, and joint pain. He is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesia, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Spine Interventional Society, and American Medical Association.
Dr. Portal delivers care through minimally invasive procedures to patients seeking to avoid surgery or who are deemed not to be surgical candidates. His areas of expertise include image-guided procedures for the non-surgical management of neck, mid-back, low back, shoulder, knee and hip pain including epidural steroid injections, lumbar and cervical percutaneous discectomy, medial branch blocks, radio-frequency ablation, joint injections, spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, ultrasound-guided nerve blocks, PRP injections, trigger point injections and much more.