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Millions of Americans suffer from the debilitating lower back and leg pain that can disrupt their every waking minute and make life unbearable.
The pain, often severe and knife-like, may result from spinal conditions that include degenerative disc disease, osteoporosis, and lumbar disc herniation. For many, the pain centers in the lower back and legs but can and often does extend to other areas such as the thighs, calves and feet. The pain often knows no boundaries and can manifest itself as a burning, throbbing ache that is constant and uncomfortable - or a searing, severe sensation that is excruciating and debilitating.
The good news is that these conditions are in many cases treatable and controllable. Doctors, trained and certified in pain medicine, can evaluate the symptoms, review the various treatment options with the patient, then provide the treatment plan that will ease and possibly even eliminate the pain.
Living with pain is not an option.
Too many back and leg pain sufferers believe that they have no options left to them but to suffer through it as best they can. Experts in pain medicine would, of course, disagree. Pain sufferers have many options. Today's modern Pain Treatment Centers offer a multidisciplinary approach that can include nerve blocks, medication, therapy, and other treatments that can give a patient's body and mind what it needs to combat and defeat the pain.
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Several options to ease your pain.
Treatments for chronic back and leg pain can vary, but here are two proven options that have for many have helped to make their pain a thing of the past.
Epidural Steroid Injection. With all the recent talk of steroids in the media, we're here to assure you that, under the direction of a doctor trained and certified to treat pain, they can alleviate much suffering. The epidural can reduce and often eliminate the pain, dramatically increase function, and possible eliminate any need for surgery.
Facet Nerve Block. The facet joints are located on each side of the spine but not near the spinal cord. By injecting a small amount of local anesthetic near the facet nerve, a pain expert can determine if the joints are causing the pain and then recommend appropriate treatment.
These are but two of the treatment options that can make chronic pain a thing of the past. You may be a candidate for even more advanced procedures.
The best advice we can give is to recommend that you seek a qualified and certified medical expert in the treatment of pain. Too many people suffer needlessly from back and leg pain when there exist many viable options that will allow the individual to lead a virtually pain-free life.
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