I have seen many Doctors in my time even worked in a few Dr. Offices myself so I know how it is run!! But I have never seen an office run like this. How can a business run with no phone for a month with no way to contact them unless you go into the office and then you get there and the door is lock during business hours. When the phone is finally up it's no use cause no one ever answers it and you can't even leave a message cause there is not one set up! I have been trying to get my medical records sent to my PCP for 2 weeks now which they should automatically update my PCP with my treatments like all my other Dr.'s do! And I told them I needed it done ASAP. I do not recommend this office to anyone because we need a office that can respond to us and treat us with respect!!!! read more

My pain became worse after seeing Mr.Emeinke (I do not even want to call him "Doctor"). My health has deteriorated over the last 10 months of seeing him. When my insurance group dropped him I knew my concerns were indeed valid. I had begun to feel like either my treatments were grossly mistaken OR there was nothing in the injections. Even the radio frequency procedure proved no positive results IN FACT, the nerve appeared to become more inflamed and irritated. Something is grossly wrong here. I am pursuing more information from my insurance company because I shudder to think WHAT in those injections. read more

Dr Eminike and his office are a joke. I arrived at 0840 for a 930 appointment, using the veterans choice program. I heard about half a dozen repeat patients speaking about how he is always late and that he lives in Santa Monica. That they usually don't leave until 1-2 for a 9-10 appointment. I waited until 10 this morning when I asked what time I would be seen. They kindly said he would be in the office around 10-1030. That is very unprofessional and honestly tells me that the doctor does not care for his patients as he knows they will wait. read more

This was the worst experience ever.. When I finally saw Dr Emenike, he treated me horribly. He advised me that I could have a Tarlov Cyst excised.... He told me he treats them all the time. He was upset that I haven't had any treatments other than pain relievers. I educated him that there are only 2 doctors in the nation who specialize in the very rare nerve disease called Tarlov Cysts and I know he is not one of them. Tarlov Cysts are extremely painful and severely decrease the quality of one's life leaving them in chronic pain that progressively gets worse. He continued on that Tarlov Cysts can be excised and they can be aspirated. He should do his homework bc this is one type of cyst that can not be excised. The nerve roots embed into the wall of the cysts making it unexcisable.. Drs who have excised them have lost their practice since they had no business doing anything with them, because they are very untreatable and require a specialist. The specialists who do treat them, will only do so if there is near loss of function or untreatable pain. If he had done his homework he would know that aspiration of Tarlov Cysts is only about a 1-3 week relief if any, then they come back and you also risk the infection of meningitis. Dr. Emenike treated me as if I had no pain at all. He has no clue what Tarlov Cysts are and he tried to tell me a lie, that he treats them all the time and that they can be excised. Tarlov Cysts are so rare, most Drs don't even know what they are. Some have never even heard of them. I would not take my dog to Dr Emenike if it was dying and he was the last Dr on the earth. He might want to excise their brain for treatment and we know what that would mean. read more

Alpha Pain Management - Pain Management Near Me - Palmdale, California

I don't think this office is even open anymore! I've called several times at different times of the day and after a week of trying to get ahold of them to schedule my mom's appointment I went by the office only to find two notes from UPS dated June 27th and last try to deliver June 29th and today is July 10th and I have called his office 3 times wit a recording stating cannot connect at this time. He's a fucking Joke! read more

WOW, where to begin here? When I began seeing Dr Eminike I felt that he was a very knowledegable man, and seemed to care about my severe pain in my back and neck. I happen to have a huge amount of pain in my neck caused by arthritis that is killing me thus allowing me to move my head about 20% to the left and 25% to the right tops, and I happen to have a 13mm disc bulge in the left side of my lower back pushing into my lower back nerve which shoots pain down my left leg all day long, and a 9mm disc bulge on the opposite side of my lower back and this is also pressing into my nerve causing me pain into my right leg all day and night and even causes my feet to both have foot pulling when I lay down to try to sleep. I have to take Oxycodone, Soma, and Methadone all day and night just to fight the pain I am in 24/7, and every doctor tells me to NEVER get surgery because I have a 50/50 chance that this would just get worse OR I could wind up in a wheelchair. They just tell me to do back exercises and take the pain killers and just deal with it, so that's what I do, even though I did have one surgery which I believe might have helped a little but the pain was worse for about a year. However, I slowly but surely began to realize that this doctor kept telling me for months, and months, and months, that he was going to look at my neck and give me neck injections and that never happened. It's been nearly a year and nothing, just back injection after back injection, after back injection, and his back injections are so hardcore that I swear to god I felt like his ablation that he did on my left side damaged my nerve and I felt pain shooting down my left leg 10x more than normal for 2-3 weeks afterward! Now Im scared of even having another done to my right side. Recently, I noticed that he began to look at my tattoo's my last visit to his office as I forgot to wear long pants and long teeshirt to cover them, as they look like bad guy tats but are all videogame related, but to those that dont know Killzone and Twisted Metal Black, Im sure they think the worst. So, he is getting ready to do another back injection and is looking at my hand and leg, and asking if they are gang related and I said no. He then begins talking to his nurse and immediately tells her that I need to have my Oxycodone rejected from my Rx because I don't need them anymore, (even though I have been on them for 5 YEARS as nothing else touches my pain), and when I asked why and whats going on, the nurse basically told me to shut up because she is talking to the Dr. So, they did the painful injection on my back, and told me go into another room. They then come back to tell me I am no longer going to be taking my Oxycodone ever again, instead I am to take 150 Hydrocodone pills that have 350mg of Tylenol per pill, and the other pill is Tramadol which does NOTHING but makes me dizzy and sick! When I told the Nurse that I cannot take this stuff because the Tramadol makes me nothing but sick and does not touch my pain, and that the other pill not only is no where NEAR strong enough to touch my pain, but my liver has over 80% liver damage due to a liver biopsy I had a few years ago, my Dr that did the biopsy told me I cannot do anything bad for my liver, I cant eat fatty foods, I cannot have aNY Tylenol, NOTHING that can damage the liver, which is one of the reasons WHY I am on pure Oxycodone. Her answer? Too bad, Dr Eminike said that is what your getting from now on,and thats it! I said what about my liver? She smiled at me and said, this is what your getting now, and I said "For the rest of my life?", and she just smiled and nodded yes! WOW! Talk about not caring about your patients at ALL! I nearly cried as I walked out the office. I am going to another Dr now and I will NEVER go back to Dr Eminike's office. This man simply must NOT CARE for his patients at all, he is indeed very smart, but his injections hurt more than any other Dr's I have been to when it comes to back injections and his ablations hurt 10x more than those done by other Dr's, and his staff are extremely rude and flat out MEAN! Not to mention sometimes Dr Eminike just does not show up to his app'ts and I arrive and nobody's there without notice, and to top it off, If you need to have your Rx rewritten because the Pharmacist cannot read it properly due to the Drs crazy writing, you have to go back and forth several times, because Dr Eminike simply REFUSES to EVER want to fix it! I have seriously had it, if it's not the ultra long waiting times in his office being the firt one there and the last to leave, it's his hatred to those of us that don't look "normal" to him that get mistreated. Forget this guy, go with another Dr is my advice! read more

Having 2 parents that are elderly I have to go to more than my fair share of medical appointments. Luckily my parents for the most part have great doctors. This office however is the exception. The Dr is fine but he had the rudest staff I have ever dealt with in my life. Natasha at the front desks is beyond rude and treats patients like dirt. read more