Long-term pain in your back, legs, or neck is challenging to live with. It’s harder to move comfortably, focus on your work or hobbies, or dream big about athletics or travel. That’s why Performance Pain & Sports Medicine offers epidural steroid injections, along with other forms of effective pain relief treatment.
Under the leadership of Dr. Matthias Wiederholz and Dr. Suzanne Manzi, our team treats patients from our locations in Houston and League City, Texas, and Lawrenceville, New Jersey. We take your pain problems seriously!
Could you benefit from epidural steroid injections? Here are five advantages you should know about.
Surgery is a last-resort approach to pain management. Your provider at Performance Pain & Sports Medicine works with you to explore nonsurgical forms of treatment, like epidural steroid injections, before looking at more invasive procedures.
Epidural steroid injections are delivered with a fine needle into the epidural space around your spine. That’s a lot less invasive than surgery!
You don’t need to plan on a lot of downtime after your epidural steroid injection appointment. You can head home or back to work right after your appointment.
Your injection is minimally invasive and low-risk. You might see some mild redness around the injection site, but that should be gone within a day or two.
We use X-ray fluoroscopy technology to precisely target your injection site. With our state-of-the-art technology, we can place your injection of steroid and anesthetic medication directly in the area where your pain problem originates.
After your procedure, the local anesthetic component of the injection causes overactive nerves in your spine to stop sending constant pain signals to your brain. When you don’t perceive back pain, leg pain, or neck pain, it can’t trouble you in the same way.
Steroid and local anesthetic medications delivered directly to the epidural space around your spine can often provide near-instant pain relief.
And, the corticosteroid component of your injection is long-lasting, so your results continue after treatment. Corticosteroids address inflammation and irritation, calming your spinal nerves and giving you ongoing pain relief.
Pain problems can be complex and are always unique. Your provider at Performance Pain & Sports Medicine customizes your treatment. You may benefit most from multiple approaches used in combination.
Epidural steroid injections are easy to pair with other pain management approaches, like physical therapy, that address the root cause of your pain for lasting improvement and relief. Injections can even make it easier for you to tolerate physical therapy.
To learn more about the benefits of epidural steroid injections as a treatment for back pain, neck pain, and more, contact our team at Performance Pain & Sports Medicine and find out if you could be a good candidate for this pain management approach.
Schedule an appointment by contacting us online, or call our location most convenient to you today.
