General Categories Of Interventional Pain Therapies

  • General Categories Of Interventional Pain Therapies

    General Categories Of Interventional Pain Therapies

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

    A). Selected drug injection (local anaesthetics, corticosteroids, alcohol, medical cement) into peripheral nerves, spinal nerve roots, vertebrae and sympathetic ganglia) for diagnostic and therapeutic reasons. Such cases are the following: 1. Lumbar transforaminal epidural injection (lumbar pain and sciatica, herniated disc, spinal nerve root inflammation/ dysfunction, vertebral metastasis) 2. Cervical and thoracic epidural injection (herniated […]