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This is an injection of numbing medicine. It bathes the medial branch nerves, which attach to the facet joints of your spine. These nerves hurt when facet joints are injured or diseased. The injection helps find the source of your pain. And it may relieve your pain for a brief time.

 


During this procedure, the physician uses radio waves to treat painful structures in your spine.  It can treat pain that doesn’t respond to medications or to physical therapy.

 


The facet joints, found on both sides of the back of the spine, can become painfully irritated or inflamed. A facet joint injection may help diagnose the source of a patient’s pain. It can also relieve pain and inflammation.

 


This injection procedure is performed to relieve pain caused by arthritis in the sacroiliac joint where the spine and hip bone meet. The steroid medication can reduce swelling and inflammation in the joint.

 


This minimally-invasive procedure repairs a vertebral compression fracture. It helps restore the spine’s natural shape. Some patients experience rapid pain relief after the procedure.

 


This injection procedure is performed to relieve low back and radiating leg pain. Steroid medication can reduce the swelling and inflammation caused by spinal conditions.

 


This outpatient procedure is an injection of a steroid-anesthetic medication. The medication can reduce swelling and inflammation of irritated spinal nerves. This procedure is performed to relieve pain in the lower back and pain that radiates from the back to the legs. The injection takes only a few minutes to complete.

 


This procedure temporarily disrupts the nerves of the celiac plexus. These nerves branch away from your spine. They connect to the organs in your abdomen. Pain signals caused by conditions such as pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer travel through these nerves on the way to your brain. A celiac plexus block can relieve your pain.



This is a procedure to treat a herniated disc. That’s a bulging disc in your spine. Getting rid of the bulge can relieve pressure on your nerves. It can relieve pain in your lower back and your legs.

 


This outpatient procedure is an injection of a steroid-anesthetic medication through an opening in the sacrum. The medication can reduce swelling and inflammation of irritated spinal nerves. The injection takes only a few minutes to complete.

 


SCS candidates include people who suffer from neuropathic pain and for whom conservative treatments have failed.

 


Spinal cord stimulation (also called SCS) uses electrical impulses to relieve chronic pain of the back, arms and legs. It is believed that electrical pulses prevent pain signals from being received by the brain.

 


This injection treats the pain of an inflamed nerve in your cervical spine. It relieves nerve swelling. If you have a herniated disc, spinal stenosis or some other problem that’s pressing on a nerve, it may help you.

 


This chronic condition is caused by a misfiring of the trigeminal nerve. An attack causes brief episodes of extreme, shooting pain.

 


This procedure is a minimally invasive surgical option for spinal stenosis, removing excess ligament tissue that is pressing on your nerves to restore space in your spinal canal.

 


This injection targets buttock and sciatica pain through the use of an anti-inflammatory steroid. Your piriformis muscle helps rotate your hip joint and may push on the sciatic nerve when it becomes swollen, causing pain that can travel down your leg.

 


This minimally invasive procedure uses radiofrequency ablation to target the vertebral body nerves to reduce the pain coming from that area.

Extremities

 


This outpatient injection procedure relieves pain in the shoulder and arm caused by arthritis, injury or disorder.

 


If you have pain in your hip, your doctor may inject medicine into your hip joint. It can help your doctor find where your pain is coming from. It can also make your hip feel better.

 


Using a sample of your own blood to concentrate the platelets, a platelet-rich plasma solution is injected to promote tissue repair and reduce inflammation. This can be used to treat musculoskeletal pain and osteoarthritis.

Other

 


This outpatient procedure is designed to reduce or relieve the pain of trigger points. These small, tender knots can form in muscles or in the fascia (the soft, stretchy connective tissue that surrounds muscles and organs). The trigger point injection procedure takes only a few minutes to complete.



A stellate ganglion nerve block is an injection that numbs branches of nerves in your neck. This helps doctors find and treat a number of problems linked to the nerves. Treatment may require a series of injections.


Ketamine can help manage certain types of chronic pain by targeting the receptors involved in pain perception and sensitivity. Delivered through an IV infusion, ketamine may help calm and reset an overactive nervous system, reduce pain signaling, and provide relief from chronic pain.

 


This procedure is an injection that numbs branches of nerves in your lower back. It helps doctors find and treat a number of problems linked to these nerves. Usually, a series of injections is needed to treat a problem.