Trigger Point and Acupuncture Injections for Wildwood, FL

Does injection therapy work for back pain? For the muscle knots and nerve irritation behind most chronic low back pain, yes, and the relief holds longer than needling alone. It does not treat a disc or a spinal joint directly, and we say so.

A back that has hurt for months rarely has one cause. There is an irritated segment, the deep muscles guarding it that have knotted into trigger points, fascia that has tightened across the whole low back, and often a nerve root inflamed enough to send pain into a hip or leg. Trigger point injections go into the taut bands in the lumbar and gluteal muscles, Traumeel or Spascupreel deactivating the knot more durably than a dry needle. Sarapin goes along an irritated nerve for the radiating part. Neither is a steroid, neither carries a limit on repeats, and both are placed by the same hands-on exam that finds the acupuncture points.

For the disc or joint itself, laser, needling and your physician's plan do the work. Full back pain page.

An epidural steroid injection goes near the spine at a pain clinic, is strong, and is limited in how often it can be repeated. It is right for some discs, and when the exam points that way we say so. A pain clinic trigger point injection is lidocaine with a steroid into the knot, under the same limits. Ours uses the same placement with a non-steroid agent, inside an acupuncture visit, repeatable as the back settles. The honest trade: steroids have the bigger trial record; what we use has a long clinical record and no steroid side effects, and we measure whether your relief lengthens. Full injection therapy page.