Interventional pain management or interventional pain medicine is a subspecialty of the medical specialty, pain management, devoted to the use of invasive techniques such as facet joint injections, nerve blocks (interrupting the flow of pain signals along specific nervous system pathways), neuroaugmentation (including spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation), and implantable drug delivery systems.
Read more about Interventional Pain Medicine: History, Radiation, Neurolysis, Cutting or Destruction of Nervous Tissue, Intrathecal Infusion, Epidural Infusion, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation, Hypophysectomy
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