We use modern pain management treatments at the Michigan Center for Pain Management, including minimally invasive and medication-free treatments. While many pain management clinics provide their patients with powerful medications as their frontline pain management treatment options, these treatments often come with side effects, lose their efficacy over time, and fail to adequately treat the root cause of a patient’s pain levels. For many chronic pain patients, injection therapy, physical therapy, and minimally invasive procedures can outperform pain management medications and provide an even better level of pain relief. Let’s examine some of these treatment options at the Michigan Center for Pain Management.
Injection Therapy for Back Pain
Various effective injection therapies can provide patients with safe, effective, and affordable pain relief. These include corticosteroid injections, epidural steroid injections, and facet joint injections. Let’s look at these treatment options and the chronic pain-causing conditions they can treat.
Corticosteroid Injections for Back Pain
Corticosteroid injections work by reducing inflammation in the body associated with chronic pain and are a minimally invasive and effective method to treat a variety of chronic pain-causing conditions. With a corticosteroid injection, doctors will use medical imaging tools to precisely inject a joint with a corticosteroid to provide effective pain relief. Unlike oral corticosteroids, which come with a greater risk of side effects, corticosteroid injections are localized and have less risk of side effects. Corticosteroid injections are an effective treatment for chronic pain caused by:
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Bursitis
- Tendonitis
- Back pain
Epidural Steroid Injections for Chronic Pain
Epidural steroid injections are an excellent option for chronic pain that is caused by pain that originates from the spine. With an epidural steroid injection, doctors will inject a steroid into the epidural space around the spine, calming inflammation that compresses nerves and leads to radicular pain. Epidural steroid injections are effective for chronic pain caused by:
- Herniated Discs
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Sciatica
Like corticosteroid injections, Epidural steroid injections are effective treatments for pain that are minimally invasive and well tolerated by patients.
Facet Joint Injections for Chronic Pain
Facet joint injections are an effective treatment option for patients with back or neck pain. The facet joints are small joints connecting vertebrae to the spine and can become sources of pain when injured or a patient has a condition that affects joints, like osteoarthritis. Similar to the procedure used for corticosteroid injections and epidural injections, a doctor will use a syringe to inject an anti-inflammatory medication into a facet joint, giving patients quick pain relief.
Exercise-Based Rehab Programs for Chronic Pain
For many patients living with chronic pain-causing conditions, a lack of exercise can lead to a vicious cycle of their pain worsening due to the weakening of muscles in the body that stabilize joints. With physical therapy, many patients can reduce pain levels and improve mobility through a carefully crafted exercise-based rehab program. The Michigan Center for Pain Management has worked extensively with several excellent physical therapists and can refer you to an excellent local physical therapist.
Additional Drug-Free Pain Management Treatments
In addition to our injection therapies and our work with physical therapists, the Michigan Center for Pain Management has excellent additional interventional pain management treatment options. Interventional pain management works by targeting pain at its source and can include treatments like:
- Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
- Spinal cord stimulation (SCS)
- Prolotherapy
Contact the Michigan Center for Pain Management today to learn more about your additional treatment options for chronic pain.
Get Started With Drug-Free Pain Management Treatments
To get started with effective drug-free pain management treatments, contact the Michigan Center for Pain Management today at (248) 923-1905. We are proud to find effective solutions to our patient’s pain and strive to help them avoid relying on powerful medication and risky surgeries for pain management.