What can be done to relieve intractable headaches?
Interventional diagnosis
- Anesthetic block
- Botox injection
- Radiofrequency ablation
Treatment
- Surgery
- Fusion/arthrodesis
- Nerve release/neurolysis (treating pain by killing the nerve that is causing it)
- Spinal cord stimulator
- Place subcutaneous next to occipital nerve
Summary
- Headache and buttock pain can be spine-related
- We can offer dx and therapeutic non-operative management safe and precise
- Mission-continue to advance imaging techniques to identify and target pain generators
