What is injection therapy?
Injection therapy for back pain is delivery of medication directly to the nerves, joints or muscles in your back to relieve pain and reduce inflammation. Most injections for back pain use anesthetic to ease pain, corticosteroid to reduce inflammation or a combination of the two. The anesthetic gives immediate relief. It takes longer for the corticosteroid to work. In addition to treating back pain, spinal injections may sometimes be used in diagnosis, to pinpoint the source of pain. How effective are they? There is no strong evidence to show that injections offer any more than short-term relief of back pain. What are the benefits of injection therapy? Temporary pain relief from injection therapy may allow you to: • Do physical therapy as well as exercises that stretch and strengthen the back • Reduce your need for pain medications What are the targets of injections? Injection therapy can deliver medication directly to places on the back that are causing pain: • Epidural space. Medicati
is injected directly into the side of the penis and produces an erection. The medication dilates the arteries of the penis and allows blood to flow in. An erection occurs anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes after injection. A patient must learn to perform a penile self-injection each time he wishes to engage in sexual activity. The erection will last 30 minutes to an hour or up to orgasm.