Body Shots – Getting under the skin: Perineural injections can relieve chronic pain
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, M.D. We all know the feeling of stepping on a thorn, or getting a paper cut. What happens next is fascinating in many ways. Microscopic pain receptors, or nociceptors, in the skin are activated by tissue damage. Each pain receptor forms one end of a nerve cell (neuron). It is connected by a long nerve fiber… Continue Reading