What is Interventional Pain Management in Lancaster, California

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Interventional Pain Management at Lancaster, California.

What is Interventional Pain Management?

Interventional pain management is a method which utilizes pain blocking techniques to help make day-to-day activities less difficult, and effectively restore quality of life for patients. AVORS Medical Group offers many options such as pain injections such as nerve blocks, implantable drug delivery systems such as Intrathecal Pump Implants, and even spinal stimulators.

Interventional pain management is generally used when pain is severe enough to interfere with daily activities, and other treatment types have not been successful in reducing pain. If you are searching for a solution to your chronic or acute pain, then it may be time to find an Interventional Pain Management doctor who can help.

Some conditions interventional pain management techniques commonly treat include:

chronic headaches, mouth, or face pain
low back pain
muscle and/or bone pain
neck pain
high medical usage

Sometimes interventional pain management techniques play a part in a multi-disciplinary approach to relieve your pain and other symptoms.

AVORS Medical Group Interventional Pain Management Treatments Options

The type of treatment you receive will be based on your specific condition and symptoms, as each type of treatment varies in terms of invasiveness.

Some of the most common Interventional Pain Management techniques include:

Nerve Blocks: Pain signals travel down nerves to the brain. Nerve blocks are used to interrupt these signals to provide pain relief. The type of nerve block depends will depend on your treatment plan, as some are minimally invasive and may last for hours or days. Other nerve blocks require surgical procedures, and may be long-term or permanent.
Infusions: Infusions involve the delivery of pain relief drugs directly into the body. These are generally for longer-term use. Intrathecal Infusions are delivered into the subarachnoid space in the brain; Epidural Infusions are used in the spinal cord.
Injections: Some common types of injections are Epidural Steroid Injections, Facet Joint Injections and Trigger Joint Injections. Each of these injections target different pain spots in the body. Injections generally include a numbing agent and a steroid.
Spinal Cord Stimulation: This technique treats chronic pain by applying gentle electrical currents to the source of the pain. Electrical leads are inserted close to the spinal column, while a tiny generator is inserted into the abdomen or buttock. The generator emits electrical signals to the spinal column, thus blocking the ability for the brain to perceive pain.
The Vertiflex™ Procedure†: The Vertiflex Procedure is redefining the treatment of LSS for patients. It provides patients with a clinically proven, minimally invasive solution that is designed to deliver long-term relief from the leg and back pain associated with LSS.