Pain Management

INTERVENTIONAL SPINAL CARE

Interventional spinal care is a comprehensive treatment plan to reduce pain and improve mobility in your spine without necessitating any surgical procedures. Our team at TriMed Spine and Joint will create a personalized approach that may consist of specialized care, exercise, and therapy to tend to the specific case of each patient.

WHAT CAN BE INCLUDED IN INTERVENTIONAL SPINAL CARE?

Our team takes a careful approach and examines your medical history, the severity of your injuries, your various symptoms, and more to construct your individual plan.

Interventional pain management options exist in several different forms to combat different injuries. While they target different areas, they all typically aim to reduce the inflammation that causes additional pressure on the nerves and results in pain. We may include facet joint injections, sacroiliac injections, trigger point injections, tendon injections, and more.

We may also inject corticosteroids in the epidural space for the same purpose of reducing inflammation and its consequential pain.

In another attempt to ease our patient’s pain, we can use nerve blocks. Doing so allows us to block a patient’s spinal nerves from transmitting pain signals from their facet joints to their brain.

WHO IS INTERVENTIONAL SPINAL CARE FOR?

Interventional spinal care can help anyone suffering from persistent back pain. As there is no one, standard approach to spinal care, there is great room for flexibility and space for our team to adapt a treatment plan that addresses your individual injuries and pains.

THE BENEFITS OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT

Interventional pain management promotes healing through a collection of noninvasive or minimally invasive procedures. With a simple and personalized care plan, it can produce long-lasting results that alleviate pain or even prevent the pain from resurfacing.

ARE THERE RISKS INVOLVED?

Risks are kept minimal when minimally invasive procedures are used in interventional pain management treatment.

Still, there is a potential for a few side effects, including:

• Allergic reaction
• Infection
• Injection site bruising or bleeding

TriMedSpine and Joint approach each case with the careful attention you need to minimize risks. Our practitioners remain available from the moment of your first consultation through your recovery process, allowing us to recognize any potential problem with your healing and treat it immediately. Your health and safety are our priority and will be at the forefront of our interventional pain management treatment planning.

Interventional Pain Procedures at TriMed Spine & Joint

Injections and minimally invasive procedures are used when conservative care has not been enough, and are chosen based on which structure is generating your pain. Each procedure below is explained on its own page.

• Epidural injections – for nerve root inflammation from a disc herniation or stenosis.
• Facet injections – for pain arising from the small joints at the back of the spine.
• Medial branch blocks – a diagnostic block to confirm whether the facet joints are the pain source.
• Radiofrequency ablation – longer-lasting relief for confirmed facet joint pain.
• Sacroiliac blocks – for pain originating at the joint between the pelvis and the base of the spine.
• Sympathetic nerve blocks – used for certain nerve-mediated pain syndromes.
• Peripheral nerve blocks – targeting a specific nerve outside the spinal canal.
• Trigger point injections – for painful, persistently contracted bands of muscle.
• Endoscopic rhizotomy – a minimally invasive option for persistent facet-mediated pain.
• Vertebral kyphoplasty – stabilizing a painful vertebral compression fracture.
• Vertebral augmentation – related treatment for fractured vertebrae.

Not sure which applies to you? Non-surgical options are covered under DRX9000 spinal decompression and chiropractic care, and you can book a consultation to have your case assessed.