Therapeutic & Diagnostic Pain Relief Services

South Texas Radiology Imaging Centers offers comprehensive non-surgical image-guided pain relief services designed to alleviate back and joint pain. This special program is designed to help patients before or after surgical intervention. We will work with you and your physician to develop the best course of care.

Pain Management Scheduling: 210-617-9070
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Featuring Spine & Joint Treatments

Candidates for Pain Relief Treatment May Have:

• Persistent pain that is not improved with rest and therapy
• Abnormal imaging study
• Degenerative arthritis
• Spinal stenosis
• Disc herniation
• Neck, back or sciatic pain

Spine & Joint Treatments

• Epidural Steroid Injections
• Nerve Root Block
• Facet Joint Injection / RF Ablation
• Steroid Injection-Peripheral Joint Baker’s Cyst & Ganglion Cyst Therapy
• Fluid Aspiration
• Lumbar Discography
• Vertebral Augmentation

VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION _{(VERTEBROPLASTY / KYPHOPLASTY)}

• Using fluoroscopy guidance, bone cement is placed into weakened or fractured bones of the spine
• The cement stabilizes the bone and promotes healing, thereby reducing or eliminating pain

EPIDURAL STERIOD INJECTION _(ESI)

• Central ESI to treat lower extremity radicular symptoms (sciatica)
• Transforaminal ESI with anesthetic and steroid to determine the origin of radicular symptoms and reduce inflammation surrounding a nerve root

FACET BLOCK & DENERVATION

• Block is performed to assess if the pain is coming from the small joints in the back of the spine
• Long-term relief of pain can then be achieved by thermal ablation of the nerves to the joints

JOINT TREATMENT _{(INCLUDES BURSA & TENDON TREATMENT)}

• Image-guided injections provide maximal success
• Upper and lower extremity intra-articular injections
• Sacroiliac joint intra-articular injections
• Peritendinous and bursa injections for pain
• Calcific tendonitis aspiration
• Baker's Cyst and Ganglion Cyst therapy