If you have the frequent, severe headache condition known as "chronic migraine," your doctor may want you to try injections of BOTOX® in your head and neck. The injections can help stop migraines before they start.

A disocgram is the everyday term for the result of a "discography." Discography helps your doctor find painful spinal discs. It can show the source of pain in your back. The process uses a type of X-ray device called a "fluoroscope" to assist in guiding needles which investigate painful areas of the spine to generate images.

Epidural steroid injections are outpatient procedures consisting of an injection of a steroid-anesthetic medication, in order to reduce swelling and inflammation of irritated  nerves. The injection takes only a few minutes to complete.

There are several types of epidural steroid injection procedures, correlating to the source of pain or area of disorder. Common variations of this simple procedure include caudal, cervical, lumbar and thoracic injection points.

The facet joints, found on both sides of the back of the spine, can become painfully irritated or inflamed.  A facet joint injection may help diagnose the source of a patient's pain. It can also relieve pain and inflammation. The location of injection corresponds to the diagnostic region of your disorder: cervical, lumbar, thoracic, etc.

This outpatient procedure is an injection of anesthetic to the genicular nerves. These are the sensory nerves that transmit pain signals from the knee to the brain. Anesthetizing these nerves can disrupt the pain signals caused by degeneration of the knee. A genicular nerve block can provide temporary pain relief. It may help determine if a patient is a candidate for nerve ablation, which can provide long-term pain relief.

If you have pain in your hip, your doctor may inject medicine into your hip joint. It can help your doctor find where your pain is coming from. It can also make your hip feel better.

This procedure is an injection that numbs branches of nerves in your lower back. It helps doctors find and treat a number of problems linked to these nerves. Usually, a series of injections is needed to treat a problem.

This is an injection of numbing medicine. It bathes the medial branch nerves, which attach to the facet joints of your spine. These nerves hurt when facet joints are injured or diseased. The injection helps find the source of your pain. And it may relieve your pain for a brief time.

This simple procedure treats chronic pain. It involves heating part of a nerve to block its pain signals. Radiofrequency ablation can give you long-term pain relief.

This injection procedure is performed to relieve pain caused by arthritis in the sacroiliac joint where the spine and hip bone meet. The steroid medication can reduce swelling and inflammation in the joint.

This outpatient procedure is an injection performed to relieve pain in the uSpinal cord stimulation (also called SCS) uses electrical impulses to relieve chronic pain of the back, arms and legs. It is believed that electrical pulses prevent pain signals from being received by the brain. SCS candidates include people who suffer from neuropathic pain and for whom conservative treatments have failed.pper back.

A stellate ganglion nerve block is an injection that numbs branches of nerves in your neck. This helps doctors find and treat a number of problems linked to the nerves.  Treatment may require a series of injections.

This outpatient procedure is an injection of a steroid-anesthetic medication. The medication can reduce swelling and inflammation of irritated spinal nerves.

The injection site correlates to the area of pain or disorder. The cervical injection is performed to relieve neck, shoulder and arm pain related to compression of a nerve root in the cervical spine.  The lumbar injection is performed to relieve pain in the lower back and pain that radiates from the back to the legs. The injection takes only a few minutes to complete. The thoracic procedure relieves pain in the upper back, ribs, and abdomen caused by a pinched nerve (or nerves) in the thoracic spine.