Pain Treatments
Pain Treatment Services We Offer
* These and many more techniques that will be recommended when you are seen by one of our staff.Selective Nerve Block
Application of local anesthetic or steroid medication to the specific nerve root.
Facet Joint Injections
We inject a small amount of local anesthetic and/or steroid medication to help reduce or block the pain.
Caudal Injections
We inject the lowest portion of the epidural space to alleviate pain in the lower back and down the leg.
Celiac Plexus Blocks
Celiac Plexus blocks and ablation injection of the nerves that innervate the pain of your abdomen usually due to cancer or chronic pancreatitis.
Epidural Steroid Injections
Injections used to help with pain around your spine, usually used to treat herniated discs and spinal stenosis.
Intercostal Nerve Blocks
Injections used to alleviate pain from the thoracic area.
Joint Injections
Radio Frequency Ablation
Radio Frequency Ablation use of special needles to thermally denervate painful joints.
Sacroiliac Joint Injections
A sacroiliac joint injection—also called a sacroiliac joint block—is primarily used either to diagnose or treat low back pain and/or sciatica symptoms associated with sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
Trigger Point Injections
Injections in focal area of muscle spasms.
Carpal Tunnel Injections
Injections to treat carpal tunnel pain usually using steroids.
Occipital Nerve Blocks
Injections used to treat specific type of headaches.
Peripheral Nerve Blocks
Injections of medicine in the area close to the injured nerve, used to relieve pain in the area affected by said nerve.
Stellate Ganglion Blocks
Injections in the area of the front of the next to block nerve signals in the upper extremities and to treat CRPS of the upper extremities.
Superior Hypogastric Plexus Blocks
Injection of local anesthetic or other pain relieving medicine used to treat pelvic and genital pain.
Here are some of the most common treatments that we offer. We are always staying informed on any of the latest techniques for alleviating pain. If you have any questions about your pain treatment plan, please contact us. Our staff is ready to find a treatment plan for you.
Our goal is to help you improve your quality of life, so you can live it to the fullest.
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Lovelace Women’s Hospital
Jefferson Location
4630 Jefferson Lane NE
Unit C
Albuquerque, NM 87109