Dr. Ayman Tarabishy, MD

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Get to know Pain Management Specialist Dr. Ayman Tarabishy, who serves patients in Southeast Michigan.

Being a Triple board-certified pain management specialist, Dr. Tarabishy focuses on minimally invasive spine and sports interventions, neuromodulation, headaches, electrodiagnostic medicine, and regenerative medicine. He is the Medical Director of Enhance Center for Interventional Spine & Sports Medicine in Livonia, Michigan.

As the premier interventional spine and sports medicine practice in southeastern Michigan, Enhance Center focuses on finding the root of the problem and offering permanent minimally invasive solutions instead of short term results. 

Dr Tarabishy specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of spine disorders, pain management, and sports medicine. The state-of-the-art facility provides interventional pain management, neuromodulation, minimally invasive spine and sports interventions, spasticity management, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and intractable pain treatment plans.

With more than a decade of experience treating patients with non-surgical orthopedics, Dr. Tarabishy embraces rehabilitation and management of health conditions such as failed back surgery, cancer pain, and complex regional pain syndrome. He has specialized training in minimally invasive spine, tendon, and nerve surgeries, a training that only a handful of interventional pain and sports physicians have received. 

With his unique training, Dr. Tarabishy provides patients with endoscopic discectomy and rhizotomy, minimally invasive lumbar decompression, as well as intracept and percutaneous tenotomy such as Tenjet and Tenex. He also offers spinal cord stimulators, dorsal root ganglion stimulators, peripheral nerve stimulators, and pain pumps. He is the only physician in Michigan comfortable in providing cervical and upper thoracic DRG stimulation.

Academically, Dr. Tarabishy earned his medical degree from the Jordan University of Science and Technology. He completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Wayne State University and an anesthesia-based ACGME accredited pain fellowship with Henry Ford Health System. 

Before becoming Medical Director of Enhance Center, he held positions at interventional pain and inpatient rehabilitation clinics, as well as consulted for traumatic brain injury and headaches. He directed EMG labs and arthrogram injections for MR arthrograms at diagnostic facilities, served at an academic complex regional pain syndrome center of excellence, and practiced at Wayne State University Athletic Injuries Clinic. In addition, he consulted on minimally invasive surgery for a major regional neurosurgery, pain management, and orthopedic practice.

In good standing with a number of professional organizations, Dr. Tarabishy is a member of the North American Spine Society, the North American Neuromodulation Society, the World Institute of Pain, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Spine Intervention Society, the American Academy of Regenerative Medicine, the Brain Injury Association of Michigan, the American Interventional Headache Society, and the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine.

Achieving diplomate status, he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation & the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians as well as the American Board of Brain Injury Medicine.

Pain management is a branch of medicine employing an interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of those living with chronic pain. A pain management specialist is a doctor who specializes in pain medicine, focusing on the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of pain.

In honor of his clinical expertise, Dr. Tarabishy received America’s Top Physicians Award in 2017 and 2018.

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