5 signs that you need DRG Stimulation

Whenever a patient walks into a clinic, doctors will listen to their symptoms and understand the origin of the pain in order to provide the best treatments to relieve and eliminate their pain. However, finding the best treatment for you can sometimes be difficult, as everybody can present symptoms in a different way. This results in some therapies not being the solution for your case.

 

If you have identified with the case that we presented above, please continue reading this article to learn more about Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation in Houston, and how it can help you.

How does DRG Stimulation work?

If you have never heard about dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation therapy, here’s how this type of treatment can help you. It is a new type of neurostimulation that aims to manage difficult-to-treat chronic pain in specific areas of the body, specifically the foot, knee, hip or groin.

In order to treat the pain, DRG Stimulation begins to stimulate the dorsal root ganglia (DRGs), which are structures that are made up of sensory nerves. These structures are located along the spine, acting like traffic lights. This means that they regulate signals and sensations that travel through the nerve fibers along the spine to the brain.

We know that the spine has different DRGs, each of them bedding associated with different areas of the body. The first thing that we do is to identify which DRG is associated with the type of pain that you’re having. After this, DRG Stimulation Therapy works by targeting the DRG that is associated with the specific area of the body where you are experiencing pain. By doing this, DRG Therapy can work for patients who are suffering from isolated chronic pain in the lower parts of the body.

When other therapies fail to help you recover completely, DRG Stimulation Therapy works to treat the root of the pain and eliminate it so that you can get back to normal and live your life free of pain. DRG Stimulation Therapy is conformed by different parts that will work together to provide pain management and relief.

• Generator: This small device is implanted in your body to send out mild electrical pulses.
• Leads: Thin insulated wires are placed in your body in the area of the DRG to carry the electrical pulses from the generator to your DRG.
• Patient controller: A way of allowing the patient to control and adjust the strength and location of stimulation or turn it off.

When should I consider DRG Stimulation?

At Interventional Pain Management we understand how exhausting it is to try different treatments and therapies and see no results in how you feel. This is why we want to share different symptoms to help you understand if DRG Stimulation might be the best option for you.

Let’s go over the five main reasons why people consider DRG Stimulation. DRG therapy may be an option if:

• You suffer from specific neuropathic conditions, such as CRPS, pelvic pain, groin neuralgia, extremity pain and other nerve pain.
• You are dealing with chronic pain that has lasted for six months or more.
• You experience isolated chronic pain in the lower part of the body.
• You are seeing no results after being treated by traditional neurostimulation, surgery, pain medications, nerve blocks or other pain management therapies.
• Your chronic pain is present in areas that might be difficult to treat with regular spinal cord stimulation and other treatments.

If you have felt identified with any of the reasons mentioned above, do not hesitate to schedule an appointment at Interventional Pain Management and receive Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation in Houston today. We are here to help you.