Epidural injections for East Valley patients are performed in office at our Mesa clinic, 1840 South Stapley Drive, Suite 234. Imaging, the procedure room and the recovery chair are in the same suite where you were examined, so the appointment does not involve a hospital outpatient department or a second facility.
People come to this clinic from Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe, Chandler and Apache Junction. If Chandler is closer for the assessment and follow-up visits, those can happen there, and only the injection itself is booked at Mesa.
An epidural is aimed at inflammation around a nerve root, which is why it is used for pain that travels: down the back of the leg from a disc or a narrowed canal, or into the arm from the neck. Pain that stays in the middle of the back and never travels is usually better answered by a different procedure.
The examination decides this, not the scan alone. Many scans in adults show a bulge or some narrowing that is causing nothing, and treating the picture rather than the pattern of symptoms is how people end up with injections that were never going to help.
Many East Valley patients are winter visitors, and spinal stenosis is a common reason they come in. Standing and walking bring the legs on, sitting or leaning on a cart settles them, and a season of golf and long walks makes it declare itself.
Bring any imaging and notes from your home physician, and tell us when you are heading back north. An injection can be timed so the effect is judged before you leave, and the record goes home with you so the next step does not start from scratch.
Check in, a short review of your medications, then the procedure room. The skin is numbed first and the needle is guided on live X-ray, with contrast used to confirm the medication will spread along the right level before the steroid goes in.
You rest for a short while afterwards and then leave. Arrange a driver if sedation is part of the plan. Most people walk out and are asked to take the rest of the day easily, then resume normal activity the following day.
Your benefits are checked before the appointment and prior authorization is handled for you. Most major commercial plans are accepted in Arizona, we are in network with most Medicare Advantage plans, and AHCCCS covers Pain Management here.
After a car accident the injection can be billed to the auto policy or med-pay, to your health plan, or on a lien that waits for the settlement. Work injuries are billed to the workers’ compensation carrier. No referral is needed to be assessed.
More on the epidural steroid injection itself, the Mesa clinic, and epidural injections across the Phoenix metro.
Every clinic below has Chiropractic, Physical Therapy, Acupuncture and Pain Management on one chart, so care can move between them without a new referral.
Downtown out through the north, west, south and east suburbs.
Academy, Interquest and Tenderfoot cover the north, central and south of the city.
Harmony in Fort Collins and our Greeley clinic serve Larimer and Weld counties.
Across the Valley, from the West Valley through Phoenix to the East Valley.
In office at the Mesa clinic, 1840 South Stapley Drive, Suite 234. Fluoroscopy is on site.
Usually, yes. It is the East Valley procedure clinic. Assessment and follow-up can be at Chandler if that suits you better.
Not always before the first visit. If imaging is needed to plan the injection, we arrange it or review what you already have.
Yes. Bring your records, and we send a summary home with you when you leave.
Do not stop anything on your own. Tell us what you take at booking, and we will tell you what to do and when.
The steroid usually takes several days. Judge it at about a week, not on the drive home.
Sometimes. It depends on the examination, and the plan is set at the assessment.
Yes. It can go through auto or med-pay, your health plan, or a lien that waits for the settlement.
Epidural steroid injections are performed in office at our Mesa clinic. No referral is needed to be evaluated, and appointments are usually available within the same week.
