Pain Management Techniques Deliver Essential Relief

The East Coast Spine, Joint and Sports Medicine team brings you extensive training in leading-edge pain management techniques. These minimally invasive treatments are administered on an outpatient basis with extreme precision and care with the goal of delivering highly effective, lasting results. They include:

• Epidural steroid injections – Done using local anesthesia, this simple procedure reduces swelling, so patients experience a dramatic reduction in pain, tingling, numbness and other symptoms.
• Facet joint injections – This procedure takes just minutes, and can significantly reduce back pain caused by inflammation in the facet joints within the spine.
• Nerve blocks – When pain in an organ or body part is caused by a group of nerves, this simple, minimally invasive procedure can block those pain signals and provide essential relief so that healing of the area can begin.
• Discography – If you have severe back pain that has not responded to treatment, this minimally invasive technique can offer insight into the cause of your pain and help determine other potentially effective therapies.