Injections for Back Pain Relief

16 Jan Injections for Back Pain Relief

Anyone who is suffering from severe or chronic back pain has experienced how limiting it can be. Back conditions can affect your entire life, making even the most basic activities challenging.

Did you know major relief can come from a simple shot? Here are various examples of back pain treatment with injections.

Epidural Steroid Injections

An epidural steroid injection is a great minimally invasive treatment option for chronic back pain. A corticosteroid, such as methyl-prednisolone, and an anesthetic, such as lidocaine, is injected to deliver powerful pain-relieving medicine within the dura covering of the spinal cord.

Epidural steroid injections are good for people suffering from spinal stenosis, spondylolysis in the facet joints, sciatica, herniated discs or degenerating discs.

Nerve Blocks

Sometimes the pain is coming from groups of nerves. Nerve block injections can numb these nerves and prevent pain signals from reaching the brain. Nerve blocks can be diagnostic as well as therapeutic.

Trigger Point Injections

Have you ever found yourself saying that you can feel a knot in a muscle? Trigger point injections can help when these knots are delivering referred pain to nearby nerve clusters.

Trigger Point injections are a combination of steroid and anesthetic to numb the painful area. These injections can also help in fibromyalgia and tension headaches, and to mitigate myofascial pain syndrome.

To learn more, call the leading pain management clinic in Gilbert, Chandler and Mesa, AZ, Desert Interventional Spine Consultants at 480-838-1914 Today. DISC offers the highest quality pain management in Gilbert, AZ, with cutting edge interventional pain treatments and precise diagnostic tests for your spine and extremities. Your pain specialist would educate and help you understand your pain, so as to enable you to make an informed decision on your treatment.