Overview
What Is Neural Perineural Injection Therapy?
Perineural Injection Therapy (PIT) is injured nerve treatment that replenishes and stops inflammatory discharges. Many chronic pain conditions develop and persist because of injury to specialized nerve fibers located just under the skin.
What Does Perineural Injection Therapy Treat?
Perineural Injection Therapy can be used to treat any form of chronic pain, which is pain that persists after the original underlying injury has had sufficient time to heal.
The painful conditions treated with the highest success rate include:
- Whiplash
- Neck pain
- Shoulder pain
- Back pain
- Buttock pain
- Groin pain
- Pain after surgery
- Chronic regional pain syndromes
- Nerve entrapment syndromes
- Persistent sports injury pain
- Neuralgias
- Fibromyalgia
- Migraines
FAQs
How does Perineural Injection Therapy Work?
Your regulatory nerve cells are very sensitive. If injured, they will persistently overproduce chemicals that create localized inflammation—a condition called “neurogenic inflammation.” This leads to persistent pain, stiffness, swelling, weakness, and sensitivity to touch. These are all symptoms experienced by people with chronic pain.
When the tissues around these injured regulatory nerve cells are injected with specifically buffered dextrose solutions, they instantly stop producing the peptides that causes the inflammation. Pain and restricted movement immediately resolve, and, more importantly, repetitive treatments will turn off the overproduction of the peptides. Your nerve is effectively healed, and your chronic pain cured.
What Should I Expect from Perineural Injection Therapy Treatment?
First, a diagnostic injection is given by Dr. Pollack to see if the pain is responsive to this treatment. If most or all of the pain resolves instantly with this test injection, the success rate with PIT is around 80% for complete long-term resolution with ongoing treatment. The average number of required treatments is typically between four to eight, depending on how widespread your pain is, and for how long it has been present.
With PIT, the injections are made into the very superficial tissues in the painful region using a tiny needle. These injections may initially be uncomfortable and painful, but this will markedly improve as treatment continues. During the course of treatment your pain will go up and down; there will be good days and days when your pain is present. There should be steady improvement, however, with the highest level of the pain lessening and the number of good days progressively increasing. With successive treatments, the response to the dextrose will be immediate and you should expect to leave a treatment pain-free.
It is imperative that you communicate with Dr. Pollack about your pain during treatment—managing all the involved nerves stems from accurate information and feedback from you!
Our personalized wellness approach is what sets us apart with Pain Treatment Plans designed around each patient’s needs. Call us at 414-453-7780