Advanced And Newer Therapies
This is a unique treatment for long term pain relief. It works in a precise and safe manner by percutaneous temperature-controlled destruction of select nerves under image guidance. It is useful in most painful conditions which have responded to diagnostic blocks
Image credit: healthline.com
Minimally invasive procedure in which a special motorized probe breaks the herniated disc into fine particles and sucks it out relieving the compression on the nerve reliving pain.
Image credit: spinomax.com
These involve injection of blood components eg: platelet-rich plasma (PRP), stem cells, bone marrow concentrate (BMC) growth factors in injured tissues or joints to promote natural healing.
Since these components are taken from patients' own blood the chances of side effects and rejection is very minimal.
Image credit: odomhealthandwellness.com
Specialized system in which a fine wire-like catheter is placed in the CSF (fluid surrounding spinal cord) and drugs are delivered precisely at the target area i.e. nerve roots emerging from spinal cord via a battery operated pacemaker fitted in abdominal wall. Commonly used for morphine and baclofen therapy in cancer and spasticity management respectively. Drug dose and side effects are both reduced with this technique.
It is a minimally invasive procedure for painful pathologic vertebral fracture in which bone cement (PMMA) is injected into a vertebral body to rebuild the collapsed vertebral body to relieve pain
Image credit: cirse.org
Used in intractable neuropathic pain, the system delivers small mild electrical impulses to the dorsal column of spinal cord or peripheral nerve in order to block the conduction of painful impulses to the higher centers in brain where pain is processed.
Image credit: newscientist.com