Interventional pain procedures are characterized by non surgical incision, no bleeding ,no general anesthesia, and have been used in the world for the treatment of chronic pain for nearly 30 years. In Iran, this method has also been started in 2006 and many patients who have previously been sent abroad are being treated domestically. Has found the field of diagnosis, control and treatment of chronic pain.
Pain is an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience that is associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Pain is an annoying and alert state but lack of proper control can make the pain from a symptom to a disease.
Minimally invasive treatment
In today’s modern world of medicine, expensive and old methods are slowly replacing new and less invasive techniques, so everything does not end with surgery alone and there are various ways to relieve pain and improve the quality of life.
How are minimally invasive treatments performed?
Interventional pain procedure is performed with special instruments (such as needles and catheters, etc.) without surgical incision with the guidance of radiological devices (CT scan, fluoroscopy, ultrasound) into the desired area and the necessary procedures are performed.
Interventional pain procedures are one of the less invasive ways to control chronic head and neck pain, lumbar and limb pain, etc. that do not require incision, anesthesia and hospitalization.
The following are some of the most common interventional pain procedures:
Caudal Neuroplasty
One of the problems with spinal surgery is postoperative adhesions, which causes pressure and stimulation of the nerve fibers involved and causes disc-like radiculopathy. One
Endoscopic Discectomy
Endoscopic Discectomy is a type of surgery in which a part of the patient’s intervertebral disc which is herniated into the canal is removed by
Intradiscal Nucleolysis Procedures
In open disc surgery, a large incision is made to access the area of the disc disc herniation, which results in postoperative adhesion and facet
Intrathecal pump
The intrathecal pump is a device designed to deliver the drug continuously and accurately into the spinal or epidural space. Medications such as morphine (antinociceptive)
Kyphoplasty
Kyphoplasty is performed in cases of vertebral fractures. Aging or illnesses or severe injuries to the vertebrae (accident, etc.), the vertebral body can be fractured,
Radiofrequency
What is Radiofrequency? The use of electric current to treat pain since 1931 began with the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, and then in the 1970s
Spinal Cord Stimulation
Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) means using electrical energy adjacent to the spinal cord to control pain. In this method, the pulsed energy is transmitted along
Spinal injections
Spine interventions : Spinal pain is not always caused by disc protrusion and even disc protrusion does not always require intradiscal intervention,other problems such as
Epiduroscopy
Epiduroscopy is actually the endoscopy of the epidural space, which means observing the spinal canal, epidural space, and nerve fibers, and in many cases can
