Chronic
back pain can turn your personal and professional life chaotic. Fortunately,
pain medicine offers minimally invasive, interventional pain treatments for
lasting back pain relief. Most of these treatments work to treat the underlying
cause of pain.
Here
is a description of the various pain management procedures – conservative to
surgical. Doctors will normally initially treat back pain with conservative
procedures first and if these don't work move to medication, then minimally
invasive techniques and surgery is usually the last resort when every other
treatment has failed to give positive outcomes.
The
doctor will decide the course of action depending upon the patient's specific
condition, the root cause, symptoms, severity of pain and medical history.
Conservative Treatments
Conservative
Treatmentsinclude physical therapy, medications such as Non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), COX-2 inhibitors and mild opioids under
supervision.
Minimally Invasive Techniques
Facet
rhizotomy injection provides lasting low back pain relief by disabling the
sensory nerve that goes to the facet joint.
Facet
joint injections are injected with long acting local anesthetic and
anti-inflammatory steroids to relieve facet joint pain for long periods.
This
procedure involves passing radiofrequency energy through the needles to
coagulate and inactivate the nerves to block pain signals from them.
Passing
alternating radiofrequency waves through tissues selectively can inactivate
pain-carrying nerve fibers.
The
word 'epidural' refers to a layer of supporting tissue outside the spinal cord.
In an epidural injection, a solution of long acting local anesthetic and steroid
medications are injected into the epidural space in the spine to relieve pain.
To
know more about back pain treatment in Boulder, CO, call Colorado Clinic at
877-535-9359 or visit coloradoclinic.com.
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