Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection is known as a non-surgical treatment for neck pain and upper back pain management. This injection is intended to relieve pain in the neck, shoulders, and arms.

Your treating physician after determining the cause of your pain will administer the cervical epidural injection in order to reduce any swelling and pain around the nerve, disc, and dura in order to improve functionality and reduce pain.

If you have pain in the neck with pain radiating down your arm, you may have a herniated disc that is pinching and irritating a nerve root.

A lumbar facet joint block is an injection into one or more of the small joints located along the side of each vertebra on both sides of the spine in the lower part of the back.

Multiple injections may be performed, depending upon how many joints are involved. Patients who are experiencing lower back pain may benefit from a facet joint block in order to relieve pain. Treatments for Pain

• Cervical spondylosis affects the spinal disks in your neck
• Cervical facet arthropathy: caused by a slip and fall, or trauma like a motor vehicle accident can result in a facet joint irritation.
• Cervical degenerative disc disease
• Neck pain
• Shoulder pain
• Facial pain

The injection is administered in the middle region of the back at vertebrae referred to as T1 – T12. Sometimes, due to a variety of acute and chronic conditions, the facet joints can become inflamed.

Symptoms can include pain and achiness in the low back, radiating across the lower back and slightly down the back of the buttocks and upper thighs.

• Pain in the back of the head or side of the head. Symptoms can include: sensations of pain usually responding well to this pain management treatment.

• Migraines

• Spondylosis of the cervical facet joints
• Inflamation of nerves

Protein Rich Plasma Injection (PRP) is an injection procedure commonly used to treat pain and injury in the back, neck, shoulder, hip, spine, ankle, etc ...

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• Osteoarthritis of the Knee, Shoulder, Hip, and Spine
• Rotator Cuff Tears
• Chronic Plantar Fasciitis
• ACL Injuries
• Pelvic Pain and Instability
• Back and Neck Injuries
• Tennis Elbow
• Ankle Sprains
• Tendinitis
• Ligament Sprains

Radiofrequency ablation is also used in patients with RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy), a chronic pain condition that can affect an arm or a leg.

Radiofrequency ablation can also be used for some unusual conditions, including pain from degenerative disks, occipital neuralgia, and certain types of abdominal pain.

Most patients who are candidates for Cervical Radiofrequency Ablation have tried other, treatments such as anti-inflammatory medication, chiropractic or physical therapy.

Cortisone injections make up a very important part of the treatment of shoulder injuries. In combination with an active rehabilitation program, they may significantly reduce the need for surgery in shoulder impingement syndrome.

Cortisone acts on both acute and chronic phases of inflammation to reduce both tissue swelling and subsequent scar formation.

Cortisone injections are useful in the treatment of various musculoskeletal conditions, particularly those of acute inflammation (such as acute bursitis), and degenerative joint and tendon conditions.

In the shoulder, they are particularly useful in the management of:

• Rotator cuff disease (degenerative tendinosis, impingement, partial tears, and subacromial bursitis)
• Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
• Glenohumeral osteoarthritis
• Acromioclavicular joint disease (osteoarthritis or osteolysis)

Cortisone injections should only be performed after a proper diagnosis based on an accurate history, & examination. This should include an x-ray, an ultrasound, or an MRI scan, depending on the doctors' findings. They will generally be used after failure of a 4-6 week trial of relative rest, anti-inflammatory modalities and medications and an exercise based physiotherapy program.