The Surgery Center at Printers Park

 

What is Pain Management?

 

 

Epidural

A block that is performed under fluoroscopy to confirm a specific diagnosis and/or decrease pain and inflammation.  For more information please visit Services Offered - Springs Rehabilitation.

Spine-Microdiscectomy

A microdiscectomy is typically performed in the case of a lumbar herniated disc. The center of the disc protrudes through the outer ring (annulus) and subsequently puts pressure on a nerve, causing pain to radiate down the patient’s leg and into the foot. In this procedure, a small portion of the bone over the nerve root and disc material from under the nerve root is removed to relieve the pressure and provide room for the nerve to heal.

A microdiscectomy surgery is more effective for treating leg pain than for lower back pain. The compression on the nerve root can cause substantial leg pain, and while it may take weeks or months for the nerve root to fully heal and for any numbness or weakness to get better, patients normally feel relief from leg pain almost immediately after a microdiscectomy surgery. 

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