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• An intercostal nerve block is a minimally invasive injection procedure that helps alleviate pain in the chest caused by shingles or a surgical incision.
• Intercostal nerves can be found under each rib, and when irritated or inflamed, may cause pain to surrounding tissues.
• The pain management specialists at Tulsa Pain explain what an intercostal nerve block is and how it’s used to reduce chronic chest pain.
  

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What Is An Intercostal Nerve Block?

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Tulsa Pain is a multi-location pain management practice in Oklahoma that is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of pain-related disorders. We consider ourselves pain consultants, because we’re passionate about working with patients to find a treatment option that works best for them. Currently, we have four convenient locations, which can be found under the “Locations” tab on our website. Nevertheless, for the sake of this blog we’d like to introduce them to you:

Q: I have chronic back pain and do not want to take prescription medications. What do you recommend?

Tulsa Pain Consultants was recently featured in Tulsa World and News on 6 regarding Oklahoma's new law that requires prescriptions for opioid pain medication refills. Dr. Andrew Revelis of Tulsa Pain Consultants weighed in on the measure and discussed how the practice is helping combat the state's prescription drug abuse problem.

If you're a chronic-pain sufferer, you're not alone.

A new study from Gallup-Healthways shows that 31 percent of U.S. adults have some sort of neck or back condition that causes them pain, 26 percent have some sort of leg or knee condition and 18 percent have another condition that causes chronic pain.

Forty-seven percent of people in the survey said they had at least one kind of chronic pain (meaning they had either neck or back pain, leg or knee pain, or another kind of pain), and 7 percent of people said they experienced all three kinds of chronic pain.