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Nerve ablation
Nerve ablation is a procedure that destroys nerve tissue with heat or chemicals to interrupt pain. It is used to target chronic joint and back pain.
Nerve field stimulation
Nerve field stimulation (NFS), usually called peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS), is a neuromodulation technique for chronic pain in which leads are implanted in the painful area itself.
Neurolysis
Neurolysis is a pain procedure that deliberately destroys a nerve using chemical injection, heat, cold, or surgery, giving weeks-to-months relief, most often for cancer pain via celiac plexus block.
Pulsed radiofrequency
Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) is a minimally invasive pain medicine technique that applies short radiofrequency current bursts near a nerve or dorsal root ganglion to treat chronic pain without destroying tissue.
Radiofrequency neurotomy
Radiofrequency neurotomy is a pain procedure that heats small spinal nerves, such as the facet joint's medial branch nerves, to interrupt chronic back or neck pain for months.