Pain Management Lab

Whether your pain is caused by injury, severe arthritis or degenerative disease, Sutter Delta’s Pain Management Lab can help find the relief you need to regain your freedom. Treatments include:

• Balloon Kyphoplasty
• Epidural and Transformational Injections
• Implantable Nerve Stimulator
• Nerve Blocks and Ablation Therapy
• Other Treatments

Balloon Kyphoplasty

An outpatient procedure that restores the strength and structure of vertebrae damaged by compression fractures.

Learn more about Balloon Kyphoplasty

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Epidural and Transformational Injections

• Facet joint nerve blocks: Relieve pain in the spine
• Neurolytic blocks: Anesthesia used to interrupt the pain pathway
• Peripheral nerve blocks: Used as anesthesia in a body part undergoing surgery
• Selective nerve root blocks: Procedure performed to determine if a specific nerve is the root of pain
• Sympathetic nerve blocks: Relieves pain in the lower back or neck

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Implantable Nerve Stimulator

An inpatient or outpatient procedure, an implantable nerve stimulator can help you regulate the pain signals sent to your brain, often with immediate life-changing relief.

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Nerve Blocks and Ablation Therapy

Our pain management specialists are able to use a combination of medications called a nerve block to temporarily prevent the nerve from transmitting pain signals.

The medications are administered directly to the target nerves, ensuring that surrounding nerves will not be affected.

Ablation therapy also targets pain-transmitting nerve cells by using radiofrequencies to generate heat around the nerve and stopping the pain signals from reaching the brain.

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Other Treatments

• Evaluation and implantation of spinal infusion pumps: A technique used to treat chronic and severe back pain
• Radiofrequency neurotomy for adhesiolysis or scar tissue ablation: Long-term destruction of small nerves that cause chronic pain
• Spinal discography: A technique used to diagnose the possible cause of back pain
• Spinal stimulation testing and implantation of spinal cord stimulation units: Surgical implants that help relieve back pain

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