CERVICAL EPIDURAL INJ

Indications

•   Herniated discs /Nerve root irritation 
•   Cervical radiculopathy with pain in the neck and upper extremity can    be relived by cervical epidural block. 
•   Sympathetically medicated pain
•    CRPS-I, CRPS-II, post herpetic neuralgia, RSD, shoulder hand syndrome, phantom limb pain,
•   post laminectomy syndrome
•   Deferential neural block to evaluate the type of pain syndrome in head, neck, shoulder and upper extremity pain.
•   Pain of acute herpes zoster. 
•   Surgical and post operative analgesia and anesthesia. 
•    Traumatic pain

Technique 

Under local anaesthesia cervical epidural inj is given in sitting, prone or lateral position

under fluoroscopy .