Foothills Pain Management Clinic

Joint injections, including steroid and viscosupplementation (hyalgan)

admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:41:44 +0000

Joint injections are used in numbers of joint conditions no matter whether it is therapeutic or diagnostic. For lots of different conditions of joint, the injections are used to ease with your pain. Steroid and viscosupplementation, more are the injections that used as joint injections. There are various people whoa re suffering from the problem of fluid that naturally occurs in human joints which coats and lubricates the joint.
Because of this problem, various numbers of people who facing huge pain so viscosupplementation (hyalgan) is an injection that used to ease with the pain and it is injected into the joint. This injection is used to moderate the pain, severe, degenerative, and chronic arthritis and sometimes providing immediate relief. The people who postpone the total joint replacement, it is better option for them in order to improve the life of patients. Besides this injection, Steroid is also used to decrease the chronic back pain. This injection is key component to non-surgical pain management. With the help of these injections, you can get immediate relief for severe pain for one week up to one year.

Peripheral Nerve Blockade

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:38:36 +0000

During the surgery, your arm and leg are numbed with a peripheral nerve block anesthesia. It is used in various surgeries or procedures on your arm or leg. With anesthesia, if you any family member or you had any problem then tells it to your anesthesia caregiver. In order to numb all parts of the arm or legs for surgery, nerve blocks are used and it is also good source for pain relief after the operation, or both. Nerve blocks also used as the sole anaesthetic for operations involving arms or legs.

Doctors also use Peripheral Nerve Blockade in major operations like joint replacements. By using this injection, the pain is reduced and you are able to move around more easily. It becomes easy for you to perform your daily activities after the nerve blockade used. It provides pain relief as the nerves can only carry so much information to the brain at once in this procedure. Before taking this injection, patient will be required some trail to ensure that it is going to help you.

Spinal cord stimulation (trial and permanent implant)

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:36:08 +0000

A spinal cord stimulator is one type of instrument which is used to apply pulsed electrical signals to the spinal cord in order to control chronic pain. Person who has been successfully passed out through trial screening will be elected for permanent spinal cord stimulation system implanted. After taking you in the operating room, doctor will place some new electrode into your epidural space around your spinal cord. Under your skin, the power source will be implanted. After implanting this source, it produces some tingling sensations, which is helpful in covering your pain sensation. Number of things such as stimulating electrodes, implanted in the epidural space, an electrical pulse generator, implanted in the lower abdominal area or gluteal region, etc. is included in Spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Spinal cord stimulation is used for treating failed back surgery syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome and refractory pain due to ischemia. This treatment has many advantages, one of the best is you can easily travel or participate in any recreational activities, including swimming. After this treatment, one can reduce or minimize the use of narcotic drugs. Not all time, but sometimes people may have a risk of bleeding, Infection, Weakness, numbness, clumsiness, etc.

Lumbar Discography

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:34:38 +0000

Lumbar discography is an injection that is used to estimate the patients with back pain who have not responded to wide conformist (nonsurgical) care regimens. To a lumber fusion, this is most common use of discography is for surgical planning prior. This procedure is simple which uses a small needle in order to inject contrast dye into your disc. As we all know that Ct and MRI shows your pain and it cannot prove pain source.

This test has been suggested as a means of testing the lumbar disc as it cause back pain. The technique also helps you to identify the conditions like painful disc levels in anticipation of surgery, internal disc disruption and more. Generally, Lumbar Discography is done if you think pain major enough for you to think more advanced treatment options. This test is also known as disc stimulation and after this procedure for two or three days, you have to tolerate temporary increase in pain.

Radiofrequency Rhizotomy

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:33:20 +0000

There are various numbers of people who are suffering from the problem of pain in their spine that creates lots of uncomfortable. If you have adopt various treatments then also you didn’t get any result then doctors suggest radiofrequency rhizotomy procedure which is completely effective and safe for you. This procedure is one type of therapeutic which is especially designed to reduce the pain symptoms which you are facing and arising from degenerative facet joints within the spine. In this procedure, the nerve is destroyed which innervate the facet joints with extremely contained heat generated with radiofrequency.

Without decreasing nerve function, this procedure reduces your pain successfully. The nerve burning will cause a permanent block of these nerves. The complete procedure of Radiofrequency Rhizotomy takes between 45 and 90 minutes to be performed. To the needle site, band-aids may be applied. Before you go home, the nurse constantly monitors your pulse and blood pressure and reviews your discharge instructions. While doing this procedure, it is important that you awake to give the important feedback to the radiologist. With the help of thin needle electrode, a radiologist will perform the procedure by placing adjacent to the degenerative facet joint.

Botulinum toxin (Botox) injections

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:31:44 +0000

Botox injections or Botulinum Toxin is one of the safest medicines, which is helpful in reducing signs of aging. With the help of small dose of Botox injections, one can easily get young appearance. Botox is such a chemical that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It is same toxin that causes food poisoning. Small amount of Botulinum Toxin is to be injected into facial muscles that are helpful in minimizing the muscles. Mostly, people are taking botox in order to reduce forehead wrinkles, vertical lines between the eyebrows, neck, and “crows feet” eye corners. Apart from that, Botox is also helpful for correcting gummy smile, droopy angle of mouth, brow lifts, extreme sweating and many other things. The result of this injection lasts for 3-6 months. One of the advantages of taking injections is to minimize the spasm and ‘unknot’ the muscle as well as reduce the sensitivity of the trigger point as a result fewer pain messages are sent. Many a time, the possibility of pain is reducing or it will become worsen as well. Botox injections or Botulinum Toxin can be given according to necessity. Many of you have a question that what is the correct age of taking botox, let me inform you the proper age of taking is after 35 years.

Peripheral Nerve Blockade

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:30:30 +0000

Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:28:51 +0000

In order to treat vertebral compression fractures, Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty are the procedures that used. Vertebral compression fractures are the fractures that involve the vertebral bodied which make up the spinal column. Besides this, osteoporosis is disease which gradually weakens bones and causes them to become brittle. Until the bone breaks, osteoporosis can progress painlessly. This disease can also cause compression fractures in the spine apart from the hip and wrist fractures. If the bony block and spine collapses then it occurs. It creates lots of pain and deformity in your body and can lead to nerve compression.

In the United States, these fractures occur to more than 700,000 patients per year. But, now you can treat this pain or disease with two therapeutic that called vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. The Vertebroplasty procedure is especially designed to decrease the pain of compression fractures and it is non-surgical procedure. This procedure means the fixing the vertebral body. While the kyphoplasty procedure also help you to ease with your 90% of the pain caused by compression fractures. Kyphoplasty is new treatment and immobilized by the painful vertebral body compression fractures associated with osteoporosis.

Trigger point injections

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:27:23 +0000

Suffering from some kind of pain? Then, it is one of the best ideas to go for Trigger point injection. With this injection, one can treat painful areas of muscle, which includes trigger points, or knots of muscle. It can be formed while muscles do not rest. Many people are also suffering such knots under the skin. Sometime, these trigger points can cause pain another part of the body as well. Trigger point injections are used in order to treat muscle groups such as arms, legs, lower back, and neck. Apart from that Fibromyalgia and tension headaches can also be treated with TPI. One can also cure myofascial pain syndrome, which is not possible with any other treatments. In this process, a small needle into the patient’s trigger point is to be inserted by professional. This injection contains a local anesthetic along with corticosteroid. For immediate relief, you can use local anesthetics such as procaine hydrochloride (Novocain), steroids, and botulinum toxin. Trigger point treatments include stretching exercises, heat, improvements in posture, electrical stimulation, and stress reduction. After going through this treatment, one can feel soreness, bruising, or feeling pain for some days. If you are doing heat and stretching exercises then it will be helpful for lessen down your discomfort.

Bursa injections

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:25:52 +0000

Bursa injections are one of the helpful medicines for diagnosing the source of pain. Person will get relief, by taking local anesthetic and anti-inflammatory steroid medications into particular bursa that are nearby to joints in the body. Person going through this process can minimize their inflammation which gives long-term pain relief. Each and every person has many bursas in their body that decrease the friction between two surfaces that go in various ways. Inflammation which is caused by bursa is known as Bursitis. A slippery surface that doesn’t have friction is offered by the bursa. The main problem rose when it caused inflammation. While moving in different places, it caused more irritation. Many a time, the normally slippery bursa becomes swollen and inflamed such condition is known as bursitis. This situation occurs because of prolonged and excessive pressure or any kind of repetitive movement. Person, who is suffering from Traumatic injury like car accident or fall, can cause bursitis. Swelling is caused due to contusion within bursa. Person feels severe pain, once the bursa is inflamed. Apart from that Systemic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis also caused bursitis. So, to fight against all such problems Bursa injections is one of the best options.