What is the Difference Between Non-Interventional and Interventional Pain Management?

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What is the Difference Between Non-Interventional
and Interventional Pain Management?
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Introduction
That might be more than a hundred million
Americans who are under the impact of chronic
pain. For a lot of us, it keeps us up at night
and freezes us, making us take exhaustive
actions. The patient mostly feels stressed and
often hears about such things as interventional
pain management and non-interventional pain
management. Sadly, the multiplicity of the
available cure methods makes it a burden to
revolve around them, even though the main goal is
to make the decision and recover.
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Non-Interventional Pain Management
A regular doctors way of controlling chronic
pain is the treatment with non-surgical methods
to relieve pain followed by more aggressive
treatment options. The aim of treatment that does
not include invasive measures is to provide
entire pain relief without penetrating or cutting
the skin through an injection or surgical
process. Some of the non-intervening processes
utilize medicinal treatment through drugs.
Despite the fact that those medications can be
effective for different types of pain, more than
medicine is required to cover the background of
non-medication, non-invasive pain relief methods.
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• Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
  like ibuprofen (Advil), naproxen (Aleve), and
  aspirin.
• Acetaminophen (analgesics) like Tylenol.
• Muscle relaxants can help treat the pain caused
  by muscle spasms.
• Antidepressants and Antiseizure Medications are
  often helpful in relieving or reducing nerve
  pain.
• Corticosteroids are cortisone-like medicines to
  help reduce swelling, redness, itching, and
  allergic reactions.

Types of Non-Interventional Pain Management
Procedures
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Interventional Pain Management
The interventional approach to managing chronic
pain for those whose pain has not responded well
to medications can be very helpful. ? The initial
interventional pain management techniques can be
traced back to 1899, the origins of regional
anesthesia and nerve blocks. These procedures
help knit the nerve so that it can't send pain
signals to the brain for a short while.
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• Radiofrequency Nerve Ablation is the delivery of
  precisely controlled radiofrequency waves to heat
  and destroy nerve tissue to reduce pain signals
  to the brain.
• Discography is the injection of a special dye
  into one or more spinal discs as a diagnostic
  test to determine if they are the source of pain.
  The dye makes the disc visible on a fluoroscope
  monitor and X-ray film.
• Percutaneous Discectomy/Nucleoplasty is a
  procedure to remove tissue from the spinal disc
  to relieve pressure on nerves.
• Steroids and other medicine injections target
  pain points in muscles, nerves, and joints to
  help reduce inflammation and ease pain.
• The pain pump is a surgically implanted device
  designed to deliver pain medication directly to
  the source of pain.
• Nerve blocks are injections of medicine that
  interrupt nerve-to-brain signals to relieve pain
  and help reduce inflammation. They are sometimes
  used as diagnostic tools.
• Rhizotomy is a procedure using surgery,
  chemicals, or electrodes to destroy nerve fibers
  to stop pain signals.
• Spinal Cord Stimulation delivers an electrical
  current to the pain source via a tiny, implanted
  medical device.

Types of Interventional Pain Management Procedures
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