After graduating from University College London with his medical doctor, Anil Kumar Kesani, MD, completed a combined orthopedic and neurosurgery spine fellowship at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Today, Dr. Anil Kesani treats spinal conditions from his SpineMD clinic in North Richland Hills, Texas. Dr. Kesani specializes in both surgical and nonsurgical treatments of the spine, including spinal injections.
Used for a wide array of conditions, spinal injections provide an alternative to surgery for those suffering from severe pain in the neck or back, as well as treatment for pinched nerves that cause radiating pain in the arms or legs. Doctors may also use injections to diagnose the cause or location of a patient’s condition when it comes to issues such as disc herniation or bulges. Injections to specific locations in the spine can allow surgeons to perform less invasive procedures to treat those conditions.
Three examples of spinal injections include epidural, facet joint, and selective nerve root blocks. An epidural injection pierces the epidural area, which is a collection of fat between the bone and the spine’s protective sac. A facet joint injection, on the other hand, delivers pain medication to the facet joints in the spine. While in selective nerve root block a physician injects local anesthetic to a single suspected nerve root to confirm whether it is the cause of a majority of the patient’s pain allowing more accurate and smaller surgery to be performed down the line..
On a similar theme while using a needle, in rhizotomies instead of injecting medicine, a physician applies radiofrequency energy to heat up pain causing small pain nerves to destroy them and abate pain. Please visit Dr. Anil Kesani’s website http://www.drkesani.com for further information.
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