Heat probe treatment of intervertebral joints

Selective percutaneous thermocoagulation of the intervertebral joints and the sacroiliac joints

 

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The affected area is locally anesthesized for this powerful pain treatment. The physician places a cannula under X-ray control at the precise place of the intervertebral joint. Then he inserts the heat probe with a specific angle. The exact postion at the affected nerve is verified via computer. Now the aerea has to be anesthesized once more, before serveral small areas are obliterated by the heat probe.

 

The goal of this methode is to interrupt the conductivity of the affected nerves that no pain can be transmitted further. Since each vertebral joint has more than one nerve, serveral areas have to be treated.

Indication

• Therapy resistant vertebral joint pain
• Vertebral joint arthrosis
• Deformation of the spinal cord
• Instability of the disks
• Simultaneous disk and spinal cord arthrosis
• Instability after disk and spinal cord surgery

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Evaluation

This ambulant, percutaneous thermocoagulation lasts for several years and can mostly avoid a surgery. It also reduces the medication. the patient is quickly mobile again and a stabilizing, isometric physiotherapy can be started soon.

 

Normal habits can be taken over right away after the treatment, various sports can be started soon afterwards.

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Advantage

The effects of the percutaneous thermocoagulation last definitely longer than other methods.

 

The success of this method is estimated with about 85 percent in the national and international literature.

 

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