Procedures

If your pain is rooted in your nerves, a nerve block could be an ideal solution to alleviate your discomfort.
This innovative procedure allows the pain management physicians at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center to target the exact location of your pain and inject it with the right solution to bring you relief.

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center offers nerve blocks for the:

This type of pain relief is effective virtually anywhere you experience nerve pain.

This treatment works by blocking the nerves that send pain signals to your brain. Numbing the nerves that create pain sensations in your body brings you fast, effective relief.

During your nerve block, your Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center specialist uses medical imaging, such as an ultrasound or fluoroscope, to guide a needle to the nerves causing your pain. They then inject those nerves with a solution formulated to address your specific pain.

For example, if the nerves themselves are the issue, they inject a numbing solution that brings you direct pain relief. If inflammation is the root cause of your pain, they inject the area with anti-inflammatory medicine.

Nerve blocks are highly effective and, because they have no risk of dependency or addiction, significantly safer for pain management than opioid use.

If your pain is rooted in your nerves, your provider at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center talks with you about your nerve block options.

This treatment is ideal for patients with a variety of pain issues. If you have chronic pain, for example, nerve blocks are an effective way to stop your pain so you can improve your quality of life.

They’re also effective for people who only need short-term pain relief, too. For example, some patients choose to get a temporary nerve block after surgery so they can heal with minimal discomfort.

To find out if a nerve block is right for you, call Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center or book your appointment online today.

Spinal cord stimulators are small devices that your experienced provider at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center can implant in your body to block pain signals in your spine, delivering relief from chronic back pain.

Introducing a spinal cord stimulator to your body can lessen the need for pain management medications while ensuring you sleep better and move comfortably through your day.

These small devices send low-level electrical signals to electrodes strategically placed along your spine. The generator that creates those electrical signals is also implanted in your body, usually in your upper buttocks.

To control your spinal cord stimulator, you have a remote control. Whenever you feel back pain, you use this remote to activate the generator to send electrical impulses along your spine.

This prevents pain signals from reaching your brain, delivering pain relief when you need it. Most spinal cord stimulators allow you to adjust the intensity of the electrical signals they send, helping you best manage your pain.

Some spinal cord stimulators modulate your pain sensations into a tingling sensation most patients describe as pleasant.

If you’d rather feel no sensations, newer devices offer sub-perception stimulation. These devices block any sensation, preventing both pain and the tingling caused by traditional spinal cord stimulators.

The Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center specialists recommend spinal cord stimulation when other, nonsurgical back pain treatments aren’t effective at relieving your pain.

With a minimal procedure, spinal cord stimulation is a treatment that can help alleviate your discomfort before you have to resort to full-scale back surgery.

If you’ve tried to find a solution for your back pain but to no avail, talk to Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center about spinal cord stimulation.

With the wide range of stimulators available, the pain management experts can help you find one that’s right for your body and your lifestyle. Don’t hesitate to explore this new, effective treatment option.

Call Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center or schedule your appointment online to learn more about spinal cord stimulation today.

During an epidural injection, your provider delivers medicine into the epidural space within your spine for pain relief.

It often includes a steroid, such as cortisone, to reduce inflammation and a numbing agent to ease the pain. Pain relief from epidural injections might last weeks, months, or even years.

Your practitioner may use epidural injections to ease chronic pain in your back, neck, hips, legs, or arms. The pain might be due to:

To help determine the cause of chronic pain, your doctor uses blood or imaging tests, a physical examination, and a review of your medical history and symptoms.

If your doctor determines you’re a good candidate for an epidural injection for pain relief, arrange for someone to drive you home the day of the procedure.

During treatment, you lie on a comfortable exam table. Your doctor may offer you a sedative to help you feel more relaxed. They numb the treatment area with a local anesthetic to enhance comfort.

Your pain management physician then inserts a needle into the epidural space between the bony vertebrae. You might feel some pressure. An epidural injection procedure might last about an hour, with a short recovery time after treatment.

After your injection, you can walk around and recover for a short time before having someone drive you home. You usually resume normal everyday activities the day after the procedure.

You might experience temporary soreness at the injection site. Take over-the-counter pain medicines or apply ice to the area as needed to enhance comfort.

Pain relief from epidural injections might last weeks or years, depending on how your body reacts. Your doctor lets you know how often to schedule follow-up appointments to monitor your progress and results. They might recommend additional pain relief treatments to complement epidural injections.

Don’t live with long-lasting pain when you don’t have to. Schedule an epidural injection consultation with Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center over the phone or online today.

Radiofrequency ablation is a treatment that leverages the latest advancements in medical technology to bring you direct, safe pain relief. Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center uses this treatment to directly address the nerves that cause your pain, bringing you comfort while minimizing the risk of side effects and complications.

This treatment is effective in treating three types of pain:

If you suffer from pain, radiofrequency ablation could bring you relief.

During radiofrequency ablation, your dedicated pain management specialist directs an electrical current into the nerve tissue that causes your pain. This heats the targeted area of tissue, hindering its ability to create and send pain signals.

Ablating, or destroying, targeted nerves using this radiofrequency current is a highly effective way to put a stop to chronic back, neck, and joint pain.

The results from radiofrequency ablation usually last at least six months and can extend for years, delivering you long-term pain relief with virtually no side effects.

Before your treatment, you relax as your radiofrequency ablation practitioner numbs the treatment area. Then, they insert a needle into the area. This needle serves as the channel for the microelectrode that delivers the radiofrequency current.

Once the microelectrode reaches the targeted location, your practitioner activates it to deliver the electrical current, ablating the targeted nerve tissue and giving you fast, effective pain relief.

Radiofrequency ablation has minimal side effects and very few risks of complications. There’s a small chance of infection, but Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center specializes in safe and sterilized procedures like this.

The most common side effects include some bruising or swelling at the injection site that fades over the coming days.

You should avoid strenuous activity and driving for 24 hours, but other than that, you can resume your normal routine immediately after the procedure.

With virtually no downtime or serious side effects, radiofrequency ablation is an ideal pain management solution for patients with a variety of pain types. To find out if it’s right for you, call Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center or schedule your appointment online today.

Lidocaine is a well-known type of local anesthetic. It’s the one dentists often use to numb your mouth before a filling, and doctors use lidocaine to make injections and IV needle insertion more comfortable.

Lidocaine works by preventing your nerves from communicating. If your nerves can’t send pain signals to your brain and spinal cord, you won’t feel any discomfort in that area. It’s one of the most-used and safest drugs of its type, and it can help treat chronic pain through an infusion.

Lidocaine infusions deliver lidocaine straight into your bloodstream so it can circulate all around your body.

Lidocaine infusions are an effective way of treating chronic pain conditions that aren’t responding to medications and other interventions.

The Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center team uses lidocaine infusions to help people with a range of conditions, including:

Lidocaine infusions relieve chronic pain in the short term but also help to break the pain cycle, which brings about long-term benefits.

The Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center team first ensures that you’re a good candidate for lidocaine infusions. That means checking you don’t have any health problems like seizures or arrhythmias that could make the treatment riskier for you.

Lidocaine infusions take place in the office at Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center. You sit in a comfortable treatment chair and your provider inserts an IV needle into your arm. They monitor your heart rate, oxygen levels, and blood pressure.

Lidocaine infusions take about 30 minutes, followed by another 30 minutes of rest to make sure you’re alright and safe to leave.

When you get home after your lidocaine infusions, you need to complete a pain diary to record your pain levels and any other symptoms for a month. You then go back to Elite Pain Management and Recovery Centers for a review.

If the first treatment helped with your symptoms, you can have more lidocaine infusions at intervals of at least four weeks apart. Most patients benefit from having more than one treatment.

Elite Pain Management and Recovery Center offers lidocaine infusions on a self-pay basis. Call to find out more or book an appointment online today.