Pain Management

The medicine will be injected into the area surrounding the nerve roots and spinal cord. The injection can reduce swelling and inflammation in the nerve or tissue, relieving pain. Your legs may be numb for several hours.

The medicine will be injected into the area surrounding the nerve roots and spinal cord. The injection can reduce swelling and inflammation in the nerve or tissue, relieving pain. Your legs may be numb for several hours.

An electrical current heats an area of nerve tissue, blocking sensation to the facet joints. The full effects of this procedure may take several weeks to be felt completely.

A small device placed under your skin blocks out pain signals. This procedure is particularly effective for patients with radiating neck and arm pain, or back and leg pain.

Trigger points are painful knots that form when muscles are unable to relax. This treatment involves inserting a needle into the trigger point, which helps relax the muscles and relieve pain

A small device implanted under the skin releases pain medication directly around the nerves in the back. This treatment is usually used for cancer pain.

This treatment helps patients struggling with pancreatic cancer pain. The first stage involves an anesthetic injection to the back to block sensation. If the result is positive, patients receive a second injection that “kills” the nerves. This can provide patients with relief for 6 or more months.

Similar to a Celiac Plexus Block, this procedure relieves pelvic or rectal cancer pain.

Similar to a Celiac Plexus Block, this procedure relieves pelvic or rectal cancer pain.

Your trigeminal nerve relays feeling from your face to your brain. If you have chronic pain in this area—known as trigeminal neuralgia—this procedure may provide relief using an initial mix of local anesthetic and steroid medication that is injected around the affected nerve. The physician will then decide if further injections or other treatments are needed based on the effect of the first injection.

Sometimes you may get a spinal headache after an epidural injection. To relieve this pain, blood is drawn from your arm to seal the leak in the epidural space.

The stellate ganglion is part of the sympathetic nervous system, which regulates actions such as increasing heart rate, pupil size, and blood pressure. To relieve pain caused by the stellate ganglion, a local anesthetic is injected around it to stop the input of pain signals to the affected area.

Similar to Stellate Ganglion Block, this treatment involves receiving an injection around the sympathetic nerves in the lower back.

This injection will numb the intercostal nerves ––located under the ribs, and when the medication wears off, the intercostal nerves should feel less pain. Sometimes a steroid is used with numbing medication as well.

The occipital nerves start in the back of your neck and run through to the base of your skull. Pain in these nerves—called occipital neuralgia—is a common cause of headache. During this procedure, a local anesthetic and steroid are injected in the back of the head to reduce pain.