Fluoroscopic Guided Injections
Fluoroscopically-guided injections are a non-operative, conservative method of treatment for ongoing and chronic back pain or joint pain. These injections are outpatient procedures that can help relieve pain quickly by reducing inflammation in the affected area. Fluoroscopically-guided injections can be extremely effective non-operative methods of treating back or joint pain.
This procedure involves placing a needle under fluoroscopic guidance either into the foramen, or hole, where a specific nerve comes out of the spine, or into the center where the nerves run together down the spinal canal. A combination of local anesthetics, such as lidocaine, and a cortisone-like drug, such as triamcinolone, that decreases the inflammation and swelling around the nerve is injected.
This combination is very effective in relieving pain and can also help diagnose the cause when it's selectively injected into the area of specific nerve roots.
Accuracy delivers medicine more precisely.
Who can get fluoroscopically-guided injections?
These injections are used for difficult-to-reach areas of the body such as the epidural space, facet joints or discs of the spine, the shoulder, hip, and sacroiliac joint. They can help treat conditions like hip arthritis, lumbar spine arthritis, lumbar disc herniation, sciatica, piriformis syndrome, and sacroiliac joint (SI) issues.
Fluoroscopy is a type of imaging that shows a continuous X-ray image as a procedure is performed. The use of fluoroscopy helps improve accuracy by allowing a physician to guide the injection needle to a precise location under direct visualization into the epidural space, facet joints, discs, and peripheral large joints. This means that the administering physician can with maximum accuracy.
