Interventional pain therapy
The Interventional Pain is a Department of Pain Management . The focus is on local injection techniques , minimally invasive, percutaneous (through the skin) and microsurgical treatment techniques that enable treatment of the pain generators through continuous radiological imaging ( CT computed tomography , magnetic resonance imaging, MRI and digital fluoroscopy ).
Interventional pain therapy is used as a therapeutic method in the treatment of painful conditions - especially for pain that originates in the spine. If the patients still suffer from severe pain despite forms of therapy such as pain medication, injections, acupuncture and physiotherapy or after an operation, they can receive outpatient care in the facilities of an interventional pain therapist. By using drugs, the interventional pain therapist can avoid complications or keep them to a minimum.
Outpatient treatment concepts for the spine and joints are:
- Injections into the small vertebral joints ( facet joints ) of the spine, so-called periarticular therapy
- Injections into the nerve roots of the spinal canal ( periradicular therapy , PRT) or into the spinal canal ( epidural injection )
- Thermal sclerotherapy / denervation of the nerves supplying the facet joints ( thermocoagulation )
- Disc therapies by injecting drugs into the intervertebral disc
- Intervertebral disc operations / decompression through percutaneous (through the skin) minimally invasive interventions with various treatment techniques such as B. Medical laser applications ( PLDD percutaneous laser disc decompression )
- Cement stabilization of broken vertebral bodies by injecting medical bone cement into the porous vertebral bodies caused by wear and tear caused by osteoporosis or osseous tumors ( vertebroplasty / kyphoplasty )
- Treatments for bony tumors using radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA)
- Orthomolecular orthopedics
- Botulinum toxin injections for stubborn muscle tension