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The biggest difference between spinal blocks vs epidurals is their amount of pain relief: spinal blocks provide total pain relief, while epidurals provide partial pain relief. The reason for this difference is that the former is an anesthetic, while the latter is an analgesic—no sensation versus no pain.

But pain elimination comes with a total lack of feeling in the lower body, due to the blocking of spinal nerves. 

Epidurals still allow for the pushing req

Roughly 8% of U.S. adults suffer from persistent or chronic back pain. That’s around 65 million people who are prevented from engaging in daily activities. Many are forced to miss days of work due to injury.

With rising healthcare costs, many back pain sufferers think that they are left without a real solution, until they try epidural injections.

An epidural injection is the infusion of robust anti-inflammatory

Small procedures on the body, like a skin biopsy, are great candidates for local anesthesia. An injection or topical cream may be used. If you’ve ever had an injection by a dentist, you’ve had a local anesthetic. Fast-acting, virtually pain-free and convenient, local anesthetics enable much of medicine to occur. Patients can remain awake and leave following their procedure. After anesthesia side effects are also exceedingly rare. But since no procedure is without risk, le

Oral surgeons have the skillset and the technology to transform their patients’ mouths. From relatively simple tasks like removing impacted teeth to life-saving measures like removing oral cancer, these highly skilled professionals are trained to rescue their patients in their time of need.

There’s more than one way to get your teeth worked on. Dental surgeries come in many varieties and they can offer solutions to a wide array of underlying oral problems.

Expecting a baby is undoubtedly a life changing event, and there are many factors to consider along the way. The crescendo of the nine month journey is of course the act of giving birth itself, but a chief concern among expecting mothers is “how will I manage my labor pain?”

There will definitely be some discomfort involved, but it can be difficult to anticipate how much. Mothers that have gone through the birthing process before may be able to reflect on what was