By Chris Faubel, MD –
Gebauerco.com
In pain medicine we treat a myriad of conditions with various injections (epidural steroid injections, peripheral joint injections, trigger point injections, prolotherapy, sympathetic blocks, botulinum toxin, etc.). One thing that all of those procedures have in common, is a needle.
Whether it’s the needle itself, or the acidic lidocaine, our injections have some degree of pain.
Besides using the smallest diameter needle possible for the respective procedure, there are other methods we can employ to eliminate or minimize the injection pain.
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