All Pain Management Articles

An Integrated Approach to Back and Neck Pain

Integrated pain management is a new approach to treating acute and chronic back and neck pain. The advantages to these programs include the centralization of medical care and less duplication of services from different medical disciplines.

Back Pain and Spas: Hydrotherapy, Pilates, Yoga

Although yoga is not for everyone, some patients with back pain have found yoga to be an effective exercise to improve flexibility and reduce pain.

Botox for Chronic Back and Neck Pain

Botox is FDA-approved for cervical dystonia, but it isn't approved for back pain or neck pain. Read up on if you can use Botox to treat your chronic pain. Article includes insight from a pain management specialist.

Caudal Epidural Injection Information

An epidural injection places anti-inflammatory medicine into the epidural space. Read how this treatment may help to decrease nerve root inflammation and hopefully reduce back or leg pain.

Cervical Epidural Injection

Learn what to expect from cervical epidural injections here. An epidural injection places anti-inflammatory medicine into the epidural space to decrease inflammation of the nerve roots, hopefully reducing the pain in the neck, shoulders, and arms.

Cervical Facet Joint Injection Information

A facet joint injection serves several purposes. By placing numbing medicine into the joint, the amount of immediate pain relief experienced will help confirm or deny the joint as a source of pain.

Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injection Information

An epidural injection places anti-infllammatory medicine into the epidural space to reduce nerve inflammation and pain.

Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbosacral Medial Branch Block Information

An injection to block the medial branch nerves temporarily stops the transmission of pain signals from the spinal joints to the brain.

Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbosacral Nerve Block

A selective nerve root block provides important information to physicians but is not a primary treatment. It serves to prove which nerve is causing pain by placing temporary numbing medicine over the nerve root of concern.

Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbosacral Spinal Nerve Injection (Diagnostic Transforaminal Injection)

A selective nerve root block provides important information about which nerve is causing pain.

Chronic Back Pain: When Surgery Is Not the Answer

In this article, learn about effective non-surgical options that deliver chronic back pain relief, including spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal spinal pump therapy.

Costotransverse and Costovertebral Joint Injection Information

The costotransverse and costovertebral joints are small joints where the ribs join the mid back. This injection may help relieve pain in the back, ribs, chest, or abdomen.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Selective (Transforaminal) Epidural Spinal Injection

A pain management experts provides informatino about selective transforaminal epidural spinal injections.

Drug Preparations Applied to the Skin Help Relieve Pain

Topical preparations are medications that can help reduce or alleviate pain caused by osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and soft tissue trauma.

Effectiveness of Spinal Epidural Corticosteroid Injections

Physicans are seeing more patients with osteoarthritis, herniated discs and spinal stenosis. This trend is expected to continue as the American population ages.