OTHER PROCEDURES
PAIN MANAGEMENT TREATMENTS & PROCEDURES
As part of a comprehensive treatment program, most patients benefit from interventional pain management injections. Conditions typically treated with interventional injections include:
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Lumbar Radiculopathy (Sciatica)
- Cervical Radiculopathy
- Facet Joint Syndrome
- Sacroiliac Joint Disorders
- Spondylolisthesis
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
- Chronic Head, Mouth and Face Pain
- Malignancy
- Muscle, Bone and Joint Pain
Below is a brief description of some of the more commonly performed injections at United Pain Center. All of these procedures are performed on an outpatient basis, at our adjacent United Surgery Center, and require little down time before return to normal activity. All interventional procedures are performed with fluoroscopic (x-ray) and/or ultrasound guidance, for optimal needle placement. Please inform the clinic if you are allergic to contrast dye or if you think you may be pregnant.
- Epidural injections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal)
- Selective epidural and root blocks (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral)
- Facet medial branch blocks (cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
- Sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion, thoracic, lumbar and hypogastric)
- Discography
- Peripheral nerve blocks
- Radiofrequency denervation
- Spinal cord stimulation
- Neurolytics of celiac plexus and cancer pain
- If you are taking a blood thinner, please call your primary care physician or cardiologist and ask if it is safe to stop the medication. They will instruct you on how to stop it when it is time for your injection. This will decrease the likelihood of bleeding complications.