Open MRI injections are the
most accurate and safe means of delivering medicines
to targeted areas of the body. Deep tissue injections
near the spine and nerves play a critical role in
modern diagnosis and treatment. They provide an irreplaceable
means for the doctor to reach inside the body without
surgery.
The power of MRI allows surgeon
to navigate among the soft tissues and nerves instead
of only relying on the closest boney structures as
required when traditional X-ray fluoroscopic guidance
is used.
For most physicians, the use
of traditional X-ray fluoroscopy for deep injections
remains the imaging solution of choice. However, with
the 2-dimensional images from X-ray guidance, the
patient can experience great pain when the physician
is forced to use the needle to "explore"
along bone surfaces to find a target. In addition,
the harmful X-ray radiation dose mounts rapidly, second
by second. In some X-ray fluoroscopic procedures,
the patient recieves a dose of X-rays as high as 500
times the amount in a chest X-ray and a thousand times
the amount in a dental X-ray.
Dr. Aaron Filler pioneered the
use of Open MRI Guidance to help reduce the pain and
radiation exposure eliminate harmful X-ray radiation
in these procedures. This means more accuracy, less
discomfort, no cancer-causing radiation, and faster
recovery for most patients.
To learn more about the various
injection methods used by Dr. Filler, choose from
any of the links below.
