Professional Joint Pain Relief Techniques & Procedures
Joint pain can feel like discomfort, pain, or inflammation throughout your entire body. The cause for this discomfort can be due to conditions like arthritis or arthralgia, or it can be attributed to strain, stress, and overuse. Many people live with joint pain every day, but that does not mean that you must! Capital District Interventional Spine & Rehabilitation PLLC provides professional pain relief services for patients seeking immediate relief from their constant or acute joint pain.
Our Techniques
Facet and Selective Nerve Root Blocks
There are two main types of facet and selective nerve root blocks--those for diagnostic purposes and those for therapeutic purposes. Diagnostic blocks can determine whether or not pain is coming from your joints or nerve roots. Therapeutic blocks are used to treat pain once the pain's origin has been determined.
Facet Block – Facet joints connect the vertebrae in the spine, allowing for a range of motion. These joints function as hinges, with one facing up and the other facing down.
Selective Nerve Root Block – Nerve roots are attached to the spine and grow out of each side of the spinal column at every spinal level. They carry signals throughout the body from the skin to the muscles. When one of the nerve roots is irritated, patients may experience pain or weakness, particularly in their extremities.
Block procedures allow us to determine whether nerves or facets are the root cause of pain, which allows us to better treat and manage your pain.
Radiofrequency Rhizotomy
Radiofrequency (RF) rhizotomy or neurotomy helps to mitigate or end pain symptoms related to spinal facet, neck, or knee joint deterioration. The procedure uses radio frequencies to generate heat and neutralize nerves that send pain signals from the facet joints to the brain.
Provocative Discogram
This procedure helps find the cause and the level of the painful disc in chronic back and leg pain as a part of a pre-operative assessment for surgery or stimulation.
Sacroiliac Joint Injection
The sacroiliac joint is a large joint in your lower back and buttocks region. When the joint becomes painful, it can cause pain in its immediate region or it can refer pain into your groin, abdomen, hip, buttock, or leg. A sacroiliac joint injection has both diagnostic, as well as a therapeutic value. Studies have shown, that the diagnostic sacroiliac joint block is the only way to confirm pain originating from this joint. First, by placing numbing medicine into the joint, the amount of immediate pain relief you experience will help confirm or deny the joint as a source of your pain. That is, if you obtain complete relief of your main pain while the joint is numb it means this joint is more likely than not your pain source. Furthermore, time-release cortisone will be injected into the joint to reduce any presumed inflammation, which on many occasions can provide long-term pain relief.
Although there are numerous ways to treat sacroiliac joint dysfunction, sacroiliac joint injections work powerfully to reduce your inflammation and they can provide months of relief.
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(518) 487-4093
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