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