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Injections : Quick Facts

  • Spine injections are minimally invasive procedures used to diagnose and treat pain caused by conditions affecting the spine, joints, muscles, and nerves. They can reduce inflammation, relieve pain, and help identify the source of a patient’s symptoms.
  • Common types of injections include epidural steroid injections, facet joint injections, sacroiliac (SI) joint injections, nerve root blocks, trigger point injections, and regenerative medicine injections such as PRP and prolotherapy.
  • Most spine injections are performed using fluoroscopic (X-ray) or ultrasound guidance to accurately deliver medication to the affected area while minimizing the risk of injury to surrounding tissues.
  • Injections may be recommended for conditions such as herniated discs, spinal stenosis, arthritis, sciatica, radiculopathy (pinched nerves), facet syndrome, and sacroiliac joint dysfunction when conservative treatments have not provided sufficient relief.
  • Most injection procedures are performed on an outpatient basis, require little downtime, and are often combined with physical therapy or other nonsurgical treatments as part of a comprehensive treatment plan.
  • While injections can provide significant pain relief and improve function, the duration of relief varies depending on the condition being treated and the type of injection performed. Your physician will determine the most appropriate injection based on your diagnosis and treatment goals.

Injections of medications to decrease pain and inflammation have long been used in pain management. Traditionally, it has always been a combination of a steroid and a local anesthetic agent. The steroid acts to interrupt the inflammatory cascade that leads to pain and swelling. The local anesthetic provides immediate pain relief to provide diagnostic confirmation of the pain generator as well as to break the pain cycle in certain chronic pain syndromes.

Types of Injections

Botulinum toxin injections have been shown to be safe and well tolerated in many clinical settings. In a pain management setting, these injections are usually considered after more traditional measures have failed. The exception to this is in the treatment of cervical dystonia, in which botulinum toxin injections are considered a first line treatment.

Diagnostic injections are injections designed to better understand your pain generator. This typically is an anesthetic agent like lidocaine injected to block pain-sensing nerves in a specific structure guided by imaging (x-ray and/or ultrasound). Other diagnostic injections use contrast, a special dye, used to assess the integrity of different structures and if they are pain generators.

The purpose of all epidural injections is to place a mixture of steroid and local anesthetic at the source of the problem to decrease inflammation causing pain, and to promote healing and clinical improvement. This treatment option has the potential to completely resolve pain and ultimately may prevent operative treatment.

Spinal injections are commonly used to localize and treat painful tissues in the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine. Treatment with spinal injections and the type of injections differ among individual patients. The spinal specialists at VSI rely on a thorough patient history combined with a physical exam and appropriate imaging studies and diagnostic tests in order to determine if an injection is warranted.

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Discover the Benefits of Injections

  • Decreases swelling and inflammation
  • Reduces nerve irritation
  • Pain relief
  • May prevent operative treatment

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