Accepting New Patients
Serving the Chicagoland Area
Elaboration
Radiofrequency lesioning can help patients with chronic neck and back pain that do not get relief from medication, physical therapy and spinal injections. It is a procedure, in which your doctor uses special needles to produce lesions along with selected nerves. The needle heats the nerve up to 80 (about the temperature of hot, not boiling water). The function of this heat is to stop the nerve to produce pain signals. Radiofrequency lesioning can be effective for the patients of neck and back pain, the successes ratio of Radiofrequency is much good in eliminating the pain.
The process is carried out as
Am I a Candidate?
If you suffer from specific sorts of low back or neck pain, and pain mainly from facet joints, then all these conditions make you the right candidate for Radiofrequency lisioning. You have to respond well to diagnostic local anesthetic blocks to be the right candidate for Radiofrequency lesioning.
The typical procedure does not take more than 60 minutes.
How long will it take to recover?
As you get recovered from the sedation, you have to get someone’s help to take you to home. There will be irritation in muscles that may continue till a week. Icing will help in eliminating the pain. Many patients get pain relief during in a week by this treatment or it can take 3 to 4 weeks to show its positive effects.
Its outcome
By the Radiofrequency treatment, you will experience good change in your life and you will not feel any pain while performing your physical activities and you will be able to restart your work as soon as you start feeling better.
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ADDRESS: 10181 W Lincoln Hwy
Frankfort, IL 60423
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