Advanced Interventional Pain Management: Proven Strategies for Lasting Relief

Experiencing pain plays an essential role in survival, teaching us to protect damaged areas of the body, avoid dangerous objects and environments, and informing us about changes in our bodies. Everyone deals with pain differently, even if the reasons for having it are the same. Having pain can mean burning, stinging, pricking, shooting, aching, or other sensations.

Interventional pain management (also called interventional pain medicine) can help manage a variety of issues, including chronic and severe acute problems. To help manage pain problems you can’t handle on your own, let’s explore what medical issues often need this type of treatment and the options we can offer to give you relief.

Residents of Norwood, Anderson, and Westside, Ohio, and Crestview Hills, Kentucky, can find help managing pain from our dedicated, experienced medical staff at Riverhills Neuroscience.

Conditions that need pain management

Many medical problems can leave either lingering pain or problems that conservative options can’t manage effectively. This multidisciplinary range of treatments can help, including with:

Headache disorders

Several types of head pain can be treated, including problems like occipital neuralgia, cluster headaches, and chronic migraine problems.

Spinal conditions

A range of issues affecting the spine can be managed, like herniated discs, degenerative disc disease (DDD), facet joint arthropathy, and spinal stenosis.

Neuropathic disorders

Pain in the nerves, like diabetic peripheral neuropathy, trigeminal neuralgia, and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), can be relieved.

Musculoskeletal conditions

Interventional pain management can help with discomfort from conditions affecting the bones, muscles, and connective tissue, such as bursitis, tendinopathy, osteoarthritis, and myofascial pain syndrome.

Cancer-related pain

Any stage of cancer can be painful, but moderate to severe problems with cancer can cause issues with pain bad enough to need this form of treatment.

Spinal conditions make up a significant portion of the people treated using advanced interventional pain management, but the overall range of conditions treated increases as research improves and evidence emerges.

Our options for lasting relief

To reduce the impact pain has on your everyday life from these and other illnesses and injuries, we can offer a variety of solutions:

Injections

A variety of medications can be injected to relieve pain, common in treatments like epidural steroid, facet joint, myofascial, and bursa injections.

Nerve blocks

A type of injection that targets specific nerve clusters, which can offer temporary or long-term relief and, in some cases, help you heal through inflammation relief.

Infusion therapy

A treatment option where medication is administered in a controlled fashion over time through a catheter or needle drip that delivers it directly into the bloodstream.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)

A form of treatment using radio waves to create a current that produces heat, which can target nerves and relieve pain.

Surgeries

Both kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are used to manage spinal pain (primarily compression fractures), and a discogram, or discography, is frequently used to determine what surgery needs to be done to help with pain.

Stimulators

Medical devices are implanted to help relieve pain and other symptoms in specific areas of the body.

Pain from the conditions listed or many other medical problems can cause lasting harm that leaves you feeling miserable, but you don’t have to endure it. Make an appointment with our team at Riverhills Neuroscience today by calling 513-322-7300.