At Coastal Comprehensive Care, we offer a range of advanced pain management solutions to help you find relief and regain control of your life. Our approach focuses on minimally invasive treatments tailored to address chronic and acute pain conditions. With options like trigger point injections, joint injections, and other therapeutic methods, our team is committed to providing effective care that targets the root cause of your discomfort, allowing you to live pain-free.
Targeted Injection Treatments for Pain Relief
Explore a range of injection therapies, including epidural steroids, joint injections, and regenerative options like PRP and stem cell therapy, designed to reduce inflammation and promote healing for lasting pain relief.
Epidural Steroid Injections
Epidural steroid injections are commonly used to treat back pain and can also relieve pain in the neck, arms, and legs. The injection delivers steroidal medication directly into the epidural space surrounding the spinal cord, aiming to reduce inflammation around irritated nerves. This treatment is particularly effective for conditions like sciatica, herniated discs, and spinal stenosis, providing relief that can last from weeks to several months.
Joint Injections
Joint injections deliver medication directly into a joint to alleviate pain and inflammation. A well-known example is cortisone shots, which are often used for conditions like arthritis, bursitis, and tendonitis. These injections are effective in joints such as the knee, hip, ankle, shoulder, and spine. They provide targeted relief, helping to reduce swelling and improve joint mobility, often offering relief for several weeks to months.
Trigger Point Injections
Trigger point injections are designed to alleviate muscle pain by targeting tight or painful muscle areas, known as trigger points. The injection, typically containing a local anesthetic, helps relax these muscle knots, which can relieve pain that radiates from these trigger points to other parts of the body. This treatment is especially helpful for conditions like myofascial pain syndrome and tension headaches.
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) Injections
PRP injections involve drawing a patient’s blood, concentrating the platelets, and then injecting the enriched plasma into an injured joint, tendon, or ligament. The platelets contain growth factors that promote tissue healing and reduce inflammation. PRP is often used to treat chronic tendon injuries, osteoarthritis, and muscle strains, providing natural and regenerative relief by enhancing the body’s own healing process.
Stem Cell Therapy
Stem cell therapy uses regenerative cells harvested from the patient’s own body, such as bone marrow or adipose (fat) tissue, to treat chronic inflammation and promote healing. These cells are injected into areas with damaged tissues, like joints or tendons, to stimulate repair and regeneration. Stem cell therapy is used for conditions like osteoarthritis, tendon injuries, and spinal disc problems, offering potential long-term improvement in pain and function.
Medication Management
Medication management is the process of overseeing the medications prescribed for a patient to ensure they are taken properly and achieving their planned, therapeutic outcome.
The process includes initial and ongoing medication review to address effectiveness, safety and adherence concerns, reduce adverse drug events, educate patients, and engage patients and their caregivers.
Medical Laser Therapy
Medical Laser Therapy relieves pain, reduces swelling, and improves range of motion by delivering red and near-infrared laser light to the body. This therapy boosts circulation, reduces inflammation, and supports tissue repair. Widely used in Europe since the 1970s, it gained FDA approval in the U.S. in 2002. It complements treatments like physical therapy, chiropractic care, and post-surgical recovery.
Laser therapy is painless and increases circulation to damaged areas, promoting healing and reducing pain, inflammation, and stiffness. The infrared light enhances cellular activity, boosting nutrient transport and energy production (ATP), which supports faster recovery and improved cell health.
Laser Therapy can help with:
- Tendinopathies
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Myofascial Trigger Points
- Tennis Elbow
- Neck Pain
- Lower Back Pain
- Ligament Sprains
- Muscle Strains
- Repetitive Stress Injuries
- Chondromalacia Patellae
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Shoulder, Back and Knee Pain
- Herpes Zoster (Shingles)
- Post-Traumatic Injury
- Fibromyalgia
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Deep Edema/Congestion
- Sports Injuries
- Auto and Work Related Injuries
Class IV laser therapy is proven to biostimulate tissue repair and growth. Class IV laser therapy accelerates the healing process by decreasing inflammation, pain and scar tissue formation.
In the management of chronic and acute pain, Class IV laser therapy can provide dramatic results.
Common Questions and Answers (FAQs)
The number of sessions varies depending on the condition but typically ranges from 6 to 12.
No, medical laser therapy is generally painless, with most patients experiencing a warm sensation during treatment.
Conditions like chronic back pain, arthritis, and nerve pain can be managed with prescribed medications.
Medications are regularly reviewed during follow-up visits to ensure they meet the therapeutic goals.
Relief can last from weeks to several months, depending on the individual and condition.
Risks are minimal as these use the patient’s own cells, but potential side effects include temporary swelling or pain.