Re: Injection procedures and scarring-

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, kmabba wrote:

>

> Trigger points that just won't resolve after a few attempts can be

> injected with a combo usually of a local anesthetic like lidocaine and

> saline.  This generally will loosen or even break really stubborn

> ones.  For some unknown reason they don't work for me.  Many neuros do

> trigger point injections and my pain specialist does too only his are

> more powerful in the numbing department than my neuro/headache

> specialist's are.

>   

> ,

I wanted to address this procedure and how harmful it can be especially

since it is supposed to be dissolving the scar

tissue. It can really cause scar tissue and more problems as it did

with me and caused adhesive achroidnitis.

You can go to Spine Universe and type in problems and lumbar spinal

injections and articles substantiate the problems

One article says this:

Potential Harms and Costs.

The potential risks of trigger point injections include damage to

nerves or other tissues, infection, and hemorrhage.

[190] <http://text.nlm.nih.gov> The cost for this treatment is

considered low to moderate.

Summary of Findings.

Based on limited research evidence in studies that included patients

with chronic problems, the efficacy of trigger point

or ligamentous injections for treating acute low back problems appears

equivocal. The injections can expose patients to

serious potential complications.

I have lived this nightmare and would jump on the wagon and encourage

anyone to do this injections but they are neuorotoxins

to the spine and I really encourage anyone anticipating these to

really do the research and there are others besides me that can

attest to what I am saying.

I do not mean to sound so negative but I trusted these procedures and

the medical field I have worked in for over thirty years. but

they are invasive, do present a adverse response. I was enticed in to

many of them thinking, I am performing a conservative

procedure when in fact, they harmed me inreversable.

Everyone has to make their own decisions but realize that anything

injected is invasive and sometimes the doctors that

do these injections downplay the reactions. It doesn't matter if they

use fluoroscope (I was a x-ray technician) and

how skilled they are. The actual liquid they inject is a nuerotoxin as

the The epidural space has the greatest resiliency to

chemical insult, the subarachnoid space, the " salum sactorum " of the

human body, is the most sensitive and fragile.

The book, The Lumbar Spine by Dr. Harry Herkowitz (You can view

preview by typing in title and author) states that

that chemicals cause a auto immune response and research is now showing

that sciaticia and other disorders

may be because of a chemical insult to the lumbar spine and in turn

cause auto immune disorders.

It is a medically written book, but still interesting, and explains a

lot of things we do not get at the doctors office.

It is interesting to look at. Take a look. Bennie