Atlas Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine,
located on Park Avenue South at 31st Street in Manhattan, New York
and in Millburn, New Jersey can provide pain management and treatment by administering a celiac
plexus block. Celiac plexus block is a pain management and pain
treatment procedure used to numb nerves in the upper abdomen and
around the aorta in circumstances of intolerable abdominal pain. The
celiac plexus block procedure is most frequently used in patients
where other pain medications or other less invasive therapies are
ineffective. Such pain may result from irritation, compression or
entrapment of the nerve bundles due to tumor invasion, fibrosis, or
chronic inflammation in such settings as chronic pancreatitis or
Crohn's disease, among others. In particular, pain due to pancreatic
cancer responds very well to celiac plexus blockade.
Celiac plexus block procedure involves the use of CT or fluoroscopic
x-ray imaging to allow for the precise placement of a needle used to
administer a long acting analgesic block to manage your pain. Celiac
plexus blocks typically provide temporary relief with less risk.
The ultimate benefit to the
patient for administering a celiac plexus block is to: decrease or
eliminate your abdominal pain. The celiac plexus block procedure
takes less than 45 minutes.
If you are interested in celiac plexus block as a form of pain
management or treatment or would like further information the
pain management doctors of Atlas Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine of Manhattan, New York and Millburn, New Jersey would be happy to see you for a consultation and
help you learn about the treatment options available to you.
