{"id":6929,"date":"2015-09-24T09:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T01:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/excelmedicalgroup.com\/uncategorized-2\/%e5%be%ae%e5%89%b5%e8%84%8a%e6%a4%8e%e6%b3%a8%e5%b0%84%e9%8e%ae%e7%97%9b%e6%b6%88%e7%82%8e\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:44:28","slug":"minimally-invasive-spinal-injection-for-pain-relief-and-anti-inflammatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/case-sharing\/minimally-invasive-spinal-injection-for-pain-relief-and-anti-inflammatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimally invasive spinal injection for pain relief and anti-inflammatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-875999 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-887780 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-89270 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p>2016-9-24<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-844595 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-340379 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-205486 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Minimally invasive spinal injection for pain relief and anti-inflammatory<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Causes of spinal neuralgia<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>There are many causes of spinal neuralgia, common ones include herniated disc and related lesions, facet joint disease, sacral iliac joint disease, lumbar degeneration, spondylolisthesis, and lumbar spinal stenosis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Symptoms of Spinal Neuralgia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because the spinal nerves are compressed, the symptoms of nerve root compression, such as pain in the buttocks, pain in the legs and feet, numbness or weakness, or intermittent claudication, are called sciatica.<\/p>\n<p>Common lesions<\/p>\n<p>The nerve root compression is the most common position between the fifth lumbar vertebra and the first sacral vertebra, followed by the position between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae.<\/p>\n<h4>How to treat spinal neuralgia<\/h4>\n<p>It is generally recommended to use treatments such as:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cox\u00ae decompression manipulation to help nerve decompression<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Medication alongside with Cox\u00ae medication<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Or consider minimally invasive spinal injections for pain relief and anti-inflammatory.<\/p>\n<h4>Minimally invasive spinal injection for pain relief and anti-inflammatory<\/h4>\n<p>Clinically, spinal injections can assist in diagnosis and treatment. Injections can control pain and delay minimally invasive spinal surgery. &#8220;Spine Pain Relief\" is to precisely inject a small amount of steroids and anesthetics into specific lesions of the spine to relieve the inflammatory response of the affected area, thereby achieving the goal of instantly eliminating lower back pain and sciatica.<\/p>\n<h4>Spinal injections for pain relief include:<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Spinal epidural injection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Spinal nerve root injection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Spine facet joint injection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sacral iliac joint injection<\/p>\n<h4>How to perform minimally invasive spinal injection for pain relief:<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Doctors need to perform spinal injections in the hospital, using X-ray machine or CT scan as a guide<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Use a special long thin needle tube to inject a small amount of medicine directly into the diseased part of the spine<\/p>\n<h4>Benefits of spinal injections:<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Spinal injections can achieve immediate and long-term nerve root anti-inflammatory and analgesic purposes. In comparison, traditional oral or external analgesic patches require weeks or months to achieve the same effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The dose of drugs used for spinal injections is extremely low, only one-thousandth of the entire course of traditional oral drugs or external painkillers.<\/p>\n<p>The medicine injected into the spine is only locally targeted at the diseased location of the spine. It is not like traditional oral or external painkillers: the medicine must be absorbed through our stomach or skin, and then decomposed by the internal body and led by the blood to the cells of the whole body, it affects other body parts that are not like spinal diseases: such as the liver, kidneys, brain and spinal cord central nervous system&#8230; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the extremely low dose of drugs used for spinal injections, it is possible to avoid the side effects of traditional oral drugs or external painkillers: such as drug sensitivity, gastrointestinal discomfort, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In patients with acute pain, the effective rate of pain relief can reach 82% after spinal injection treatment; and in patients with chronic pain, the effective rate of relief is also about 70%.<\/p>\n<p>After the spinal injection, the patient can immediately relieve the pain and relax the tight back muscles, so that the patient can immediately return to normal life, participate in stretching and section training exercises, weight loss exercises, and using Cox\u00ae Decompression Manipulation to help decompress nerves, so that you can get better treatment results.<\/p>\n<h4>Limitations of spinal injections:<\/h4>\n<p>It varies from person to person, as the analgesic effect after injection can last for a month to several months. The degree of pain improvement varies depending on the cause and severity of the disease; however, patients do not need to take high-dose traditional oral drug or external pain relief patches. After the spinal injection, the patient\u2019s pain will be immediately relieved, they can immediately participate in stretching and segmental exercises of the back muscles, weight loss exercises, and Cox\u00ae Decompression Manipulation to help decompress the nerve and get better with longer treatment results.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px; line-height: 1.5;\">\n<p>Generally speaking, the number of spinal injections for pain relief should be no more than 3 times a year. If it is implemented one to three times or more, we need to consider:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Radiofrequency nerve analgesia therapy (the analgesic effect can be maintained for one to two years) or;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minimally invasive endoscopic or microscopic spinal surgery treatment, which can have the opportunity to cure and permanently remove the long-term torture of nerve tenderness.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The possible risks of spinal injections for pain relief include:<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After receiving the spinal injection, the patient may experience temporary numbness and weakness in the back or legs for several hours due to the short-term anesthesia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After the original painful area is improved, the disease of other spine lesions that have not received injection treatment may become obvious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May cause allergies or transient inflammation to the injected drugs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Patients who are taking anticoagulant drugs or platelet drugs need to stop taking the drugs for four to ten days to reduce the risk of bleeding due to injections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; People with severe skin inflammation or infections need to be controlled to reduce the risk of bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<h4>In conclusion<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Spinal injection analgesia is one of the treatment options for the treatment of acute or chronic low back pain and sciatica. Its advantages are low invasiveness, high safety, and can achieve the goal of delaying spinal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are suffering from acute or chronic low back pain and sciatica, you can choose an appropriate spinal injection analgesic method after evaluation by a chiropractor or cranial neurosurgeon, and you should get considerable improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Case: An 85-year-old mother-in-law, under the guidance of CT scan, underwent selective external injection of spinal nerve roots to obtain immediate results.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of CT X-ray machine, spinal nerve root injection<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-776823 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ct-x_1-1.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-187960\" style=\"height: 40px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-389113 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"QmZWSe\">\n<div class=\"DHcWmd\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oSioSc\">\n<div id=\"tw-target\">\n<div id=\"kAz1tf\" class=\"g9WsWb\">\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en\">Spine facet joint injection<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tw-target-rmn-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\">\n<pre id=\"tw-target-rmn\" class=\"tw-data-placeholder tw-text-small tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"\">\u00a0<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-536915 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/injection_1-2.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-841795\" style=\"height: 40px; clear: both; width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-736386 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"tw-target-text-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large XcVN5d tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"en\">Spinal epidural injection<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tw-target-rmn-container\" class=\"tw-ta-container hide-focus-ring tw-nfl\">\n<p id=\"tw-target-rmn\" class=\"tw-data-placeholder tw-text-small tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-726004 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/injection_2-1.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section id=\"dr-pang\" class=\"kc-elm kc-css-655522 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-769741 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\">\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-192761 divider_line\">\n\t<div class=\"divider_inner divider_line1\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-795657 kc_row kc_row_inner\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-580237 kc_col-sm-6 kc_column_inner kc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"kc_wrapper kc-col-inner-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-691429 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dr-peter-pang.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-669124 kc_col-sm-6 kc_column_inner kc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"kc_wrapper kc-col-inner-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-812939 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Author<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-216981 kc_text_block our-doctor-fixed-height\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 15px 0px; text-align: left;\"><strong>DR. PETER K.H. PANG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #bd9a5f; font-size: 16px;\">MBBS (HK), FCSHK, FRCS (Edin), FHKAM (Surgery)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-293971\">\n\t<a class=\"kc_button\" href=\"https:\/\/excelmedicalgroup.com\/dr-peter-kh-pang\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" onclick=\"\">\n\t\tMore\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17575,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/17575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelmedicalgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}