Interventional Pain Management

Interventional pain management is more than simply treatment. We look at the whole person to understand not just your pain, but how it's affecting your life. Then, we look for ways to treat the various aspects of your pain.

What you should know about interventional pain management:

We offer several types of interventional treatments, including:

• Epidural steroid injection — to treat nerve root irritation or inflammation, caused by degenerative or herniated discs
• Facet joint injection — to provide temporary or permanent pain relief in the joints of your spine, usually caused by degeneration, inflammation from injury, or arthritis
• Intra articular injections — for knee, hip, shoulder and sacroiliac pain
• Greater occipital nerve block — an injection of steroid and a local anesthetic given in the back of the head to provide temporary or permanent relief for headaches caused by an irritation or pinching of the nerves known as occipital neuralgia
• Kyphoplasty — treatment of injecting cement to treat compression fractures
• Intercostal nerve blocks — injection of medication to help with rib pain
• Genicular nerve blocks — injection for chronic knee pain
• Sympathetic block — an injection around the sympathetic nerve which is responsible for causing specific types of pain following an injury. This option is used to treat or diagnose Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
• Ganglion Impar blocks — injection of medications around nerves to treat tailbone pain
• Radio frequency ablation — a procedure to deactivate nerves that supply the facet joints in the spine, disrupting the nerve conduction to reduce back or neck pain and related symptoms
• Cryoanalgesia — a procedure used to freeze specific nerves to reduce or stop pain
• Trigger point injection — a local anesthetic mixed with a steroid medication that is injected directly into the muscle to treat muscle pain
• Spinal cord stimulation — an implanted device in the spine used to treat nerve pain from various causes
• Bursa injection — treats inflammation of a bursa
• Alternative therapies such as acupuncture, capsaicin cream and supplements, mindfulness training and cognitive behavioral therapy 

Why choose AtlantiCare for interventional pain management?

• Dedicated pain medicine specialists: These include doctors who have additional, rigorous training in pain management. AtlantiCare pain medicine specialists provide pain relief to patients throughout the system. 
• Variety of techniques: There are multiple ways to treat pain, and different people respond to different methods. This is why we offer a variety of nerve blocks, spine injections and other procedures. We also have expertise in spinal cord stimulation, which uses a pacemaker-like device to block the pain signals from your spine to your brain. 
• Alternatives to pain medication: While opioid (narcotic) pain medication may be part of your treatment plan, our goal is to lesson people's dependence on it. We offer treatment options like, spinal cord stimulators, I-flows, DRG, and radiofrequency.