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Sacroiliac Joint Injection

The sacroiliac joints are located at the base of the spine between iliac bones and the sacrum. Sometimes straining these joints can cause severe pain in the low back that does radiate into one or both legs. It may be very painful just to sit down. Injecting cortisone with a little local anesthetic can be both a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure.

These procedures are all done under x-ray guidance and sedation in the procedure suite or in a hospital outpatient setting

Spinal Cord Stimulator Evaluation

Spinal cord stimulator is a device that is placed into the spine and more specifically into the epidural space. It has electrodes at the tip to generate an impulse that creates a signal of vibration or tingling in the back and down the legs that over lies the pain signals that are generated at the level of the spine.

Candidates for this procedure may include people who have had multiple back surgery or neuropathy

These procedures are all done under x-ray guidance and sedation in the procedure suite or in a hospital outpatient setting

Intra Spinal Pump Evaluation

A spinal pump is for patients with severe intractable back pain or any other form of intractable pain such as cancer pain that requires aggressive pain medication that is delivered directly into the spinal fluid.

Medicine is continuously infused into the spinal fluid. Medicine is usually morphine or some other similar strong pain medicine that creates a very strong relief of pain at a very low dose of medication.

These procedures are all done under x-ray guidance and sedation in the procedure suite or in a hospital outpatient setting

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