What is Interventional Pain Management?

According to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), interventional pain management is a "discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders."

Interventional pain medicine utilizes a multidisciplinary approach, the goal of which is to relieve, reduce, or manage pain and improve a patient's overall quality of life through minimally invasive techniques specifically designed to diagnose and treat painful conditions.

Interventional pain management also strives to help patients return to their everyday activities quickly and without heavy reliance on medications.

Commonly Treated Conditions

Patients needing interventional pain management services suffer distress and discomfort caused by a variety of conditions and disorders, including:

-Postsurgical procedures
-Malignancy
-Trauma
-Ongoing low back, neck and shoulder pain
-Stroke and major systemic disease, such as diabetes
-Muscle and/or bone pain
-Ongoing head, neck and mouth and face pain

Invasive Treatments

Riverhills Healthcare can provide invasive treatments including;

-Epidural injections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal)
-Selective epidural and root blocks (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral)
-Facet injections and medical branch blocks (cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
-Sympathetic blockage (stellate ganglion, thoracic, lumbar and hypogastric)
-Discography
-Peripheral nerve blockage
-Radiofrequency denervation
-Epiduroscopy
-Spinal cord stimulation
-Neurolytics of celiac plexus and cancer pain
-Intrathecal and epidural fusion systems
-Percutaneous discectomy/nucleoplasty