What are the Different Types of Epidural Injections for Pain Relief?

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Epidural Injections for Pain Relief Los Angeles & Beverly Hills CA

An epidural injection is meant for the epidural spine space of the spine and the goal is to provide temporary relief from pain or inflammation. The epidural space is found outside the dural membrane (the lining of the spinal cord). Medications such as anesthetics and steroid (cortisone) are delivered in form of an epidural injection.

This injection may help reduce pain and swelling in and around the spinal nerves roots and around the damaged nerves.

Epidural injections are widely used to offer treatments for a variety of back pain conditions. These can help patients achieve pain relief and avoid the need for surgery.

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Epidural Injections

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What are the Different Types of Epidural Injections?
- Epidural steroid injections have been in existence since the 1960’s. They are often administered to those patients who have an inflamed nerve root due to pinching from a disc herniation. In most cases, this form of treatment is used to reduce the inflammation thus help ease the pain. The injection consists of steroid which helps in numbing in order to provide quick relief.
  
  Normally this injection is administered in series of three injections in intervals of one to two weeks apart. They can be repeated every few months in case the pain returns.
Interlaminar Epidural Injection
- This medication is administered by directly injecting anesthesia into the epidural space between the bones of the vertebrae known as the lamina. The needle is directed through the use of an x-ray machine. Typically the Los Angeles pain doctor will inject dye first to ensure accuracy.
Transforaminal Epidural Injection
- This is the newest variety of epidural steroid injection. This injection is administered to people with a light anesthesia which is injected over the nerve root opening. The Beverly Hills pain management doctor places the needle near the area where the nerve root is being pinched. As the nerve root leaves the spinal canal, it travels out through the foramen. The needle is placed in the foramen so that the soothing steroid medication can be placed right around the area of compression.
Caudal Epidural Injection
- This method is administered at the epidural space. It involves placing a needle from the bottom point of the spinal canal to the sacral hiatus. Once the needle is in the epidural space, the required amount of medication is injected so that it covers various spinal levels. The relief normally takes effect in less than a week and may last for several days to a few months.
Bottom Line
- All these epidural injections have shown excellent results in treatment of nerve root compression with sciatica pain. The top pain management doctors in Los Angeles such as Dr. George Graf at Intelligent Pain Solutions offer all types of epidural injections, along with over twenty five additional procedures.
  
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