What Pain Management Is
Pain management therapy is an out-patient treatment that uses imaged guided
injections to treat the specific area that is causing pain. Injections may also
be used to determine the precise source of pain.
At Invision Sally Jobe we have experienced spine interventional radiologists.
These physicians have been specially trained to perform therapeutic spine and
joint injections. They work with your treating physician to help identify the
anatomic cause of your pain and also treat the cause. We use steroids to help
reduce inflammation and break the cycle of pain, inflammation, decrease in
mobility, and progression of symptoms. The steroids that we use are potent
therapeutic anti-inflammatory agents. These steroids are not the same drugs
that are abused by athletes.
Our radiologists also perform diagnostic services in our pain management suite.
We perform arthrograms, discograms, and myelograms, which also assist in surgical
planning and diagnosing your pain.
In addition to performing pain management services at two of our Invision Sally
Jobe outpatient centers in the South Denver Metro area of Colorado, RIA radiologists
also perform them at several Denver area hospitals.