Trigger Point Injections

What is it?
A trigger point injection can help soothe myofascial pain, especially in your neck, shoulder, arms, legs and lower back.
Trigger points are painful “knots” in your muscles that can be very sensitive to touch/pressure. They may form after acute or chronic trauma leading to stress on muscle fibers, which can become tight and painful. Fibromyalgia and migraines are examples of conditions that can be treated with trigger point injections. Trigger point injections commonly involve injections of local anesthetic, either with or without corticosteroid.
The physician doing the injections can use an ultrasound probe to guide the needle towards the muscles and tendons causing you pain. In some cases, more than one set of trigger point injections could be needed to adequately decrease your pain, or even multiple injections in a single muscle group for long-lasting pain relief.
What conditions can this treat?
- Migraines
- Chronic tension headaches
- Fibromyalgia
- Myofascial pain syndrome
- Radiculopathy
Conditions
- Arthritis
- Cancer Pain
- Chronic Pelvic Pain
- Chronic Abdominal Pain
- Cervical Radiculopathy
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Compression Fractures of the Spine
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Fibromyalgia
- Herniated Discs
- Knee Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Migraine Headaches
- Neck Pain
- Neuropathy
- Post Laminectomy Syndrome
- Shoulder Pain
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Whiplash CAD
Treatments
- Botox Injection
- Capsaicin (8%) Patch
- Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
- Disc Nucleoplasty
- Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulator (DRG)
- Endoscopic Discectomy
- Facet Joint Syndrome
- Hip Joint Injections
- Intrathecal Pain Pump
- Intercostal Nerve Block
- Ketamine Infusion
- Knee Joint Injection
- Kyphoplasty
- Lidocaine Infusion
- Lumbar Epidural Spinal Injection (LESI)
- Lumbar Sympathetic Ganglion Block
- Lumbar Radiofrequency Neurotomy
- Minuteman Procedure
- Medial Branch Block (MBB)
- Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression (MILD)
- Platelet Rich Plasma
- Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
- ReActiv8 Procedure
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Regenerative Medicine
- SI Joint Injection
- Stellate Ganglion Block
- Sympathetic Nerve Block
- Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)
- Trigger Point Injection
- Transforaminal Epidural Spinal Injection (TFESI)
- Vertebroplasty
- Vertiflex Procedure