Your sympathetic nerves run down the front of your spine outside your spinal column.
The dorsal root ganglion is the area of a spinal nerve that connects the nerves to your spine. This area sends impulses from nerves to your spinal cord.
An epidural anaesthetic involves injecting local anaesthetic into an area called the epidural space near your spinal cord.
An epidural is a type of pain-killing injection given by an anaesthetist.
A facet joint injection involves injecting local anaesthetics and sometimes steroids into or around a facet joint.
During a laminectomy the surgeon removes enough bone and tissue from the back of the spine to free trapped nerves.
The Nuffield Health Spinal Centre at Woking Hospital offers rapid access to lumbar discectomy treatment performed by a team of highly experienced spinal consultants.
A lumbar sympathetic block is an injection of local anesthetic into or around the sympathetic nerves.
Sacroiliac joint injections involve injecting anti-inflammatories or anaesthetic into problem areas.
The Nuffield Health Spinal Centre in Woking is home to an expert team of spinal consultants with experience performing spinal decompression. Your treatment package includes aftercare with a physiotherapist to encourage a speedy recovery.
Spinal anaesthetic, also known as a spinal block, is administered by injecting drugs into an area called the subarachnoid space near the spinal cord. Spinal anaesthesia can be used while you are awake or in combination with sedation or general anaesthetic.
At the Nuffield Health Spinal Centre in Woking, our team of specialist orthopaedic consultants has vast experience performing spinal fusion surgery.
A facet joint injection involves injecting local anaesthetics and sometimes steroids into or around a facet joint. The local anaesthetics numb the nerves to the facet joint to give pain relief. The steroids reduce inflammation and may make the pain relief last longer.