Thursday 29 September 2016

5 Minimally Invasive But Highly Effective Back Pain Treatments

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

Facet rhizotomy injection provides lasting low back pain relief by disabling the sensory nerve that goes to the facet joint.

Facet joint injections

Facet joint injections are injected with long acting local anesthetic and anti-inflammatory steroids to relieve facet joint pain for long periods.

Facet joint denervation

This procedure involves passing radiofrequency energy through the needles to coagulate and inactivate the nerves to block pain signals from them.

Radiofrequency treatment

Passing alternating radiofrequency waves through tissues selectively can inactivate pain-carrying nerve fibers.

Epidural steroid injection

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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