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Treating chronic pain and helping you better understand and manage ongoing pain is our speciality. Image guided spinal injections are one of a few treatments we can offer to provide pain relief and get you back to feeling like yourself again.
Some causes of back pain can be treated by injecting medications into different parts of the spine; these are known as spinal injections. If your swollen or painful joints, ligaments or tendons do not respond to conservative treatments your consultant may recommend image guided joint injections.
An image guided joint injection is usually done on a day case meaning you will go home on the day of the procedure. You will be awake during your injection.
Your consultant will use a image intensifier or ultrasound scanner to guide the injection into the exact area needing relief. The skin in area to be injected will be cleaned and a local anaesthetic may be injected. A very fine needle will be guided into the joint where a combination of steroid medication to reduce inflammation and anaesthetic is injected.
Recovery from the injection will depend on what area is being treated. We may ask you to wait awhile following your injection to ensure you have no reaction to the medications used.
An image guided injection is a procedure that injects medication into a joint, bursa (saclike cavity situated in places in tissues where friction would otherwise occur) or around a tendon.
The injection is usually a mixture of a local anaesthetic and corticosteroid medication. Steroids are used to reduce inflammation, which in turn reduces pain.
Pain relief can be long lasting or temporary. You should experience an improvement in your symptoms within three to seven days. The procedure is performed using the guidance of imaging machines such as ultrasound or image intensifier.
At med(24) we are proud to offer on-site MRI scans which create a much higher quality image compared to an x-ray.
The main causes of back pain that can be treated with spinal injections include:
There are two main types of spinal injections:
The anaesthetic injected into your joint may provide temporary pain relief for 4-6 hours. It can take several days for the steroid to begin to take effect. Maximum effectiveness can take up to 10 days.
The injection may aggravate the area around your joint. Take over the counter pain relief such as paracetamol if needed. Occasionally patients feel numbness or weakness in the area.
You should rest the injected area for 24 – 48 hours after your injection.
Image guided joint injections are a minimally invasive procedure. Very rarely there can be side effects
If this sounds like the treatment for you, don’t hesitate to book a consultation for initial diagnosis and our expert consultants will recommend a treatment pathway perfect for you!
Email us at info@med24.clinic or call us on +44 (0)330 580 1154
*This does not include intitial consultation.
During the month of August we are offering a promotion on these injections. An all inclusive package for a competitive price starting from £1,500
There is a wide range of various different pain relief injections available, each with their own subset of specific uses to help treat and ultimately relieve pain in a given area. Typically, a steroid medication is injected to deliver a powerful anti-inflammatory solution directly to the area causing pain.
For example; a typical steroid injection, when injected into a joint or muscle, the steroids reduce redness and swelling (inflammation) in the nearby area. This can help relieve stiffness, soreness and overall chronic discomfort.
A few injections you would tend to see associated with pain management are as follows;
As by their given name, pain relief injections are for pain relief. Injections can be more effective than an oral medication because they deliver medication directly to the exact anatomic location that is generating the pain.
Without a formal diagnosis from a member of our team of specialists, there’s no way to answer this question just yet. By taking the first step to book a consultation with us today, you can be on the right path to find out. However what is useful to know, is more about pain relief injections in general, so, what are they?
Pain is your body’s way of letting you know that something is wrong. So even if you think your pain is bearable, you need to take it seriously. Every part of your body, including your skin, organs and muscles, has pain receptors to let you know when something is wrong.
We can help treat;
Our team of experts can help you take back control of your life. This includes treatments from pain relief injections to physiotherapy treatment.
Our expert consultants have immediate access to high-quality diagnostic tools, including MRI, Ultrasound, and X-ray scans, to make a precise diagnosis. We take a bespoke approach to make a full and accurate assessment of your pain, its cause and how best to treat it.
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Did you know, steroid injections have been around for more than fifty years and around a million steroid injections are performed each year in the UK? As a widespread common practice, it is likely you’ll experience one of these treatments in your life. If this is the first time for you or a family member, this page is dedicated to providing details and answering the questions you may have.
