Injections

Lumbar epidural steroid injections work by inhibiting chemicals, proteins, and nerve signals that contribute to pain.

Several conditions often indicate a need for lumbar epidural steroid injections, including lumbar disc herniations and degenerative disc disease.

Therapeutic injections can provide pain relief and help determine the source of a patient’s pain in the neck or back.

Different lumbar epidural steroid injection treatment techniques can have positive outcomes in treating sciatica pain.

How do you know if a medial branch block provided positive results? If the pain is improved by at least 80% within the first 4-6 hours, that indicates...

The procedure for medial branch injections involves using X-ray guidance for accuracy and injecting anesthetic into the facet joint(s) of the spine.

For some patients, the source of their back or neck pain may be the facet joints – pairs of small joints at each vertebral level of the spine. To confirm this source of pain, a medial branch nerve block may be performed.

Prolotherapy injections are generally considered safe and beneficial for appropriate patients with chronic back pain.

Prolotherapy for back pain usually involves treating ligaments and joint spaces in the spine and/or hip by injecting small amounts of a medicated solution.

Radiofrequency ablation involves creating a heat lesion on a pain-transmitting nerve to prevent the nerve from sending pain signals to the brain.