Interventional pain management is an innovative discipline that has been established itself in the modern pain therapy. It is characterized mostly by local injection, minimally invasive, percutaneous treatment techniques and the continuous imaging in the accompanying treatments. By targeted injection or treatment of the painful areas can not infrequently the Source of pain directly diagnose and treat. By mastering the treatment methods and thet knowledge of pharmaceuticals, the interventional pain therapist avoid or minimize complications. The effective treatment avoids side effects and complications, causing pain medication or surgery. Thus, the patient may become active again.
Many interventional pain management have gained many years of clinical work in addition to a certified exam and are able to offer the broad spectrum of the field.
As an "interventional" one generally referred to diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, interventions targeted at the diseased tissue to make. According to the American Society of Interventional Pain (ASIPP) is in interventional pain management is a "discipline that is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of pain due to the emerging health problem." Interventional procedures are among the most innovative areas of medicine of the 21st Century.
(The modern imaging is the most important instrument in modern interventional pain therapy)
Interventional pain management is subordinated to one between the conservative and operative treatment measures and for the group of patients is an interesting alternative, which experienced a sufficient or lasting improvement after conservative treatment, and / but for surgical therapy is not yet or are likely. At the same time it speaks to the group of operated patients already suffering from severe back or still complaints.
