These are the treatments our team of highly-trained physicians frequently provide at their comprehensive pain clinic:
Interventional pain management is a medical specialty that focuses on relieving pain that doesn’t improve with conventional medical treatments. Our Pain Management physicians accurately diagnoses the cause of your symptoms and then recommend advanced treatments that target the source of your pain. As a result, you can return to your everyday activities and enjoy a better quality of life.
The treatments offered use several different techniques, but they work two basic ways, by injecting corticosteroids at the inflamed nerves to reduce inflammation and by stopping pain signals traveling through nerves.
Many interventional treatments effectively manage your pain by blocking the nerve signals carrying pain messages to your brain. You can only feel pain when your brain gets the message through a sensory nerve.
Techniques that stop pain signals include:
Nerve blocks
Your Pain Management physician injects a local anesthetic at the targeted nerve to interrupt the nerve signals.
Radiofrequency energy
Using a long needle-like probe, your Pain Management physician team uses the heat from radiofrequency energy to wound the targeted nerve. The wound blocks nerve transmission until the nerve regenerates, which usually takes at least six months and often much longer.
Spinal cord stimulation
Your Pain Management physician implants a small generator under your skin, and then runs a lead wire through the epidural space in your spine, and places the lead wires next to the nerves carrying pain signals. The generator sends a mild electrical impulse through the lead wires, which masks or blocks nerve transmission.
If you have painful inflammation that’s interfering with your mobility, you might benefit from ultrasound-guided injections from our board-certified Pain Management physicians. When performing the following pain management procedures, your Pain Management physician uses fluoroscopic (real-time X-rays) or ultrasound imaging to guide the needle, placing it precisely at or near the targeted nerve.
These are the treatments they frequently provide at their comprehensive pain clinic:
If you need relief and want to get started on the road to living a life without pain, make an appointment with a board-certified Pain Management physician today.
