What you need to know about the RFA procedure for pain management

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Alissa Wolfe | Chronic Pain Specialist

2 жыл бұрын

🔥WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE BURN OR CUT OUR NERVES?🔥
Ahhhh the RFA procedure...
RFA stands for Radiofrequency Ablation & this is a procedure where energy from radio waves are converted to heat to burn targeted nerves.
This procedure is often used by pain management providers to essentially burn, kill, or disable nerves with the goal of decreasing pain.
Common risks & side effects include numbness/tingling, burning, hypersensitivity, bleeding, infection, or nerve damage.
Here are my two problems with this procedure:
1. It targets one peripheral nerve
👉But nervous system changes in the brain & spinal cord also contribute to the amplification of pain so targeting one peripheral nerve will not address chronic pain pathways.
👉And you need to be extremely confident that that single nerve is the primary source of danger messages (but likely it's not the only danger message generator).
2. Nerves grow back.
👉After being cut or burned those nerve endings grow back in a spiderweb fashion, expanding the area the nerve collects information from
👉The new growth is all unmyelinated which basically means a lower intensity stimulus can cause a nerve to fire.
👉That means that you have more sensitive nerves & a wider area of pain.
This doesn't just happen with RFA procedures, it happens with any surgery as well, even those "less-invasive" arthroscopic procedures with minimal cutting.
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ABOUT ME:
I'm Alissa Wolfe.
I'm a doctor of physical therapy and chronic pain specialist. I help people who are fed up and frustrated with chronic pain retrain their nervous system so they can beat chronic pain and get their life back.
In other words, if you have chronic pain and are looking for a new and improved way to manage your pain with an approach based on neuroscience, I'm your girl.
I got out of the clinic and started my online chronic pain coaching business so I could provide that nervous system retraining piece that is missing from pain management in the health care system.
Empowering people with chronic pain is my calling. I wasn't okay knowing that my patient's with chronic pain had no one to turn to, no one who would help, and no one who would believe them.
I decided I would be that person, even if in the beginning I didn't know everything I needed to know to help them. I pushed myself to learn and I discovered that we were trying to treat the "tissue issue" when people with chronic pain have a nervous system "pain problem".
Changes in the nervous system were contributing to pain and yet no one was addressing those changes.
By adding this element of neuroscience and nervous system retraining to my treatment approach, clients and patients are getting better than ever.
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@arthurgregory9028 13 күн бұрын

I had a RFA of the neck. Now the back of my head hurts when I touch it. Not only that the same day after my procedure I was in so much pain I went home and had a stroke. Never in my life have I had such a bad experience.

@cesartoledo5621 Жыл бұрын

I just had this RFA procedure and I feel pain. Now I have pain in different areas. I feel burning In one of the places where they ablazed. In another spot I feel like someone has a dull knife stabbing me. 😢 I don’t know what they thinking when these procedures are engendered. Thank you for your video.

@brianruhl5945 12 күн бұрын

What is a chronic pain specialist? What are you qualifications to speak on RFA procedures?

@MotleyDawg034 4 ай бұрын

Thank you thank you thank you…You are a 100% correct

@justinb2184 4 ай бұрын

How do you get rid of pain then? 🤔 .. I was assaulted in my bedroom in 2020, the bedroom door was locked and kicked open, caught it on two separate cameras an the police and prosecutor would not do anything about it. I've already had 3 procedures done of this... I am now in upper cervical chiropractic care with craniosacral massages. I have intracranial head pressure, occipital, trigeminal, auriculotemporal, Supraorbital, and Supratrochlear neuralgia with cervicogenic headaches and cervicalgia, along with presisent post concussion syndrome. I am doing my best to get the pain to go away.. Pain behind the eyes, the forehead, behind the ears, forgetfulness, concentration, and memory problems.. I have been waiting to get disability the last 4 years because I can't work and I am running out of hope in man kind.. The Police, the Prosecutor, the Sheriff's department, the governor, the local congressman in my district didn't help me. All I have is Medicaid and I can't work, I don't have any money 💵 to go somewhere to get what I really need done.. I need a major lawsuit against the local police and prosecutor for willful negligence of their duty.