Epidural Steroid Injection

Chronic neck or back pain from arthritis or a spine injury can be difficult to manage with oral pain relievers. At Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants, Jaime Robledo, MD, and the pain management team offer epidural steroid injections to calm inflammation and reduce spinal nerve pain when oral medicines no longer work. They customize an injection therapy plan to keep your pain well-controlled, so you can participate in physical therapy and other activities that support your recovery. Call the office in Katy, Texas, to schedule a consultation for epidural steroid injections or book an appointment online today. 

What are epidural steroid injections?

Epidural steroid injections are a pain management strategy that delivers steroids and a local anesthetic into the epidural space that surrounds your spinal cord.

Steroids reduce inflammation in the spine that irritates nearby nerves. The anesthetic interferes with pain signals between your nerves and your brain to provide lasting pain relief.

Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants offers epidural steroid injections in the office for adults and adolescents with spine injuries, degenerative arthritis, and other chronic pain conditions.

The pain management specialists use the latest imaging technologies to guide the injection into a precise location within the cervical (upper), thoracic (mid), or lumbar (lower) spine for maximum pain relief. 

The team also offers sacral transforaminal and interlaminar epidural steroid injections to target specific spinal nerves responsible for pain.  

Am I a candidate for epidural steroid injections?

You may be a candidate for the epidural steroid injections available at Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants if you have chronic back or neck pain that’s not treatable with oral medications.

The team may also recommend epidural steroid injections if you have conditions like:

• Bone spurs
• Scoliosis
• Herniated disc
• Spinal stenosis
• Nerve compression
• Spinal degeneration (spondylolysis)

The team offers in-office comprehensive health evaluations to better understand the nature of your condition. The providers also assess the severity of your symptoms to determine if epidural steroid injections are appropriate.

What can I expect during my visit for an epidural steroid injection?

During your appointment, your Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants provider helps you get comfortable on an exam table and then cleans the injection site.

They position a fluoroscopy machine over your back to capture real-time images of your spine so they can position the needle correctly. The imaging technology helps guide the needle into a specific area in the epidural space before your provider injects the medication.

Some people feel less pain immediately after the injection. However, it can take several days before you experience the full benefit of treatment. If the initial injection is successful, the team may recommend additional injections spaced out over several weeks or months to manage chronic pain.

Call Advanced Interventional Pain Consultants to find out if you’re a candidate for epidural steroid injections or book a consultation online today.