Procedure Instructions

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Procedure Instructions

Select your procedure below to view or print your instructions. If your physician gave you different instructions, follow your physician’s instructions.

Before Your Procedure

Please read this before any procedure. It covers sedation choices, fasting, drivers, and blood thinners.

Preparing for Your Procedure Sedation, fasting, driver, blood thinner, and day-of instructions View / Print PDF →

Injection Procedures

After Your Injection General aftercare for spine and joint injections View / Print PDF → Epidural Steroid Injection Education and discharge instructions View / Print PDF → Medial Branch Block and Pain Diary Diagnostic facet nerve block with printable pain diary View / Print PDF → Radiofrequency Ablation Education and discharge instructions View / Print PDF → Sacroiliac Joint Injection Education and discharge instructions View / Print PDF →

Surgical Procedures

Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial and permanent implant instructions View / Print PDF → Intrathecal Pump Replacement Post-operative instructions View / Print PDF → Kyphoplasty Patient information and post-operative instructions View / Print PDF → Sacroiliac Joint Fusion Post-operative instructions View / Print PDF → Basivertebral Nerve Ablation Post-operative instructions View / Print PDF →

Questions? Call Coastal Spine & Pain at (251) 291-2311, Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For a medical emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.