What is Interventional Pain Management?

Due to the irreversible nature and the historically high potential for surgical failure, patients and physicians alike have always searched for less invasive and risky alternatives to surgical management of pain. Interventional pain management dates back to as early as 1901 when the first epidural was performed to treat sciatic pain. Recently, with the explosion of technologic advancements in imaging techniques and pain treatment systems, there now exists a host of minimally invasive outpatient procedures that may effectively manage your pain.

Traditionally, clinicians and physicians have been frustrated by the lack of diagnostic accuracy of physical exam, imaging and neurodiagnostic testing alone. Treatments mostly consisted of pain medications, chiropractic manipulation, physical therapy, or surgery. The ability to accurately diagnose pain-generating structures was as low as 15%. Now, with advancements in diagnostic interventional pain techniques, your doctor may definitively pinpoint your pain to its exact source by temporarily blocking nerve roots, ligaments, joints, muscles or discs. This allows precise localization of painful structures in up to 85% of patients treated, which undoubtedly leads to more a focused treatment plan.

Florida Pain Center specializes in supplementing exercise, physical therapy and medication with minimally invasive procedures to effectively diagnose and manage your pain. We offer a wide array of treatments options including epidural blocks, selective nerve root blocks, SI and facet joint injections, RF neuroablation, proliferative therapy, percutaneous disc decompression, trigger point injections, lysis of scar tissue, peripheral neuromodulation and spinal cord stimulation.