nerve block
Targeted numbing shot
A nerve block is a medical procedure that uses injected anesthetic to interrupt pain signals along a specific nerve or nerve bundle.
Doctors use nerve blocks for surgical anesthesia, chronic pain management, or diagnosis: The dentist gave me a nerve block before the extraction.
Some blocks provide temporary relief; others, using agents that destroy nerve tissue, are permanent.
- lidocaineTopical numbing medication
- local anestheticDrug blocking regional sensation
- numbing agentSubstance that eliminates sensation
- numbingCausing loss of sensation
- local anesthesiaTargeted sensation elimination
analgesia · pain relief · chronic pain · conscious sedation · sensory nerves · epidural · motor nerves · sciatic · neural pathways · blockade · peripheral nervous system · needle · catheter · injection site · regional · central nervous system · ultrasound guided · procedure
- rehabilitationrehab, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, inpatient rehab
- surgerysurgery, surgeon, surgeons, operation, incision
- sensory lossblindness, deafness, numbness, anosmia, hearing loss
- numbnessnumbness, insensibility, tingling, pins and needles, deadness
- anestheticspropofol, ketamine, halothane, thiopental, nitrous oxide
- dental anesthesiadental anesthesia, local anesthesia, local anesthetic, sedation, nitrous oxide