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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 goals
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.
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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
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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 | | | | |
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