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I am curious about ablation. The doc who gives me an epidural once or twice a year never mentioned it. I saw a new sports med doctor and ask if there are options besides epidural and surgery for stenosis. Can’t remember all he said but one was ablation, having to do something with the arthritis in the spine along with the stenosis
I’m a pretty active person - epidurals mostly do help me so far. I think what helps me most of all is doing core work a minimum of twice a week. More would probably be better. Either that or my pain receptors are dead 😊 my primary back doc is surprised that, based on my MRIs, I don[t have any pain when she runs me through the usual “does this movement” hurt routine. Just my two cents. Bulk of exercises are pretty much the typical ones a person gets at PT.
Of course, now I have an ankle thing that I have yet to have any doc figure out, which limits the length of running or walking I can do. But i’ll pursue it with this new doc I’ve gone to. New eyes on the problem may help.
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I've had spinal stenosis in my neck for about 10 years. It causes significant pain in my hands, the more I use them I've had numerous epidurals with reasonably good results. I now have a new pain mgmt Dr. He is going to perform a RFA ( radio frequency ablation) procedure in a month. He said he had gotten excellent results. I am very interested to see how effective it will be. I have had to use opioids and otc meds to manage the pain. I'm hopeful that this procedure will significantly reduce my need for such.
Ablation basically burns out the nerves that transmit pain. It supposedly is effective, to varying degrees for upto about months.