Interventional pain management involves special procedures to treat and manage pain. "Interventional" procedures might include an injection of an anesthetic medicine or steroid around nerves, tendons, joints or muscles; spinal cord stimulation; insertion of a drug delivery system; or a procedure with radio-frequency ablation or cryoablation to stop a nerve from working for a long period of time. These techniques may help patients:

• Reduce the amount of time pain is experienced and its severity
• Allow for an increase in activities at home and work
• Overcome isolation
• Learn new skills for coping with pain
• Determine ways to end sleep problems
• Improve the quality of life
• Rehabilitate

Patients needing interventional pain management services suffer distress and discomfort caused by a variety of conditions and disorders, including:

• Chronic low back and neck pain
• Chronic reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) or complex regional pain syndrome
• Chronic head, mouth and face pain
• Postsurgical procedures
• Malignancy
• Post-traumatic pain syndrome
• Muscle and/or bone pain

The Pain Center provides the most sophisticated and complex treatments available, including:

• Epidural injections (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and caudal)
• Selective epidural and root blocks (cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral)
• Facet injections and medical branch blocks (cervical, thoracic and lumbar)
• Sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion, thoracic, lumbar and hypogastric)
• Discography
• Peripheral nerve blocks
• Radiofrequency denervation
• Spinal cord stimulation
• Neurolytics of celiac plexus and cancer pain
• Intrathecal and epidural infusion systems

• Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center
• Department of Neurosurgery
• Institute for Spinal Disorders
• Neurology