Botox Injections

What Is Botox and How Does It Work?

Botox is a medical form of a neurotoxin called botulinum toxin that is produced by the bacteria called Clostridium botulinum. Botox is injected in key muscle areas of the head and neck around the pain fibers involved in headaches. The Botox enters the nerve endings where it blocks the release of chemicals involved in pain transmission, thereby preventing the activation of pain networks in the brain.

What Conditions Can Botox Treat?

Botox injections are a type of injection that works for migraine headaches by blocking neurotransmitters, that are chemicals in your brain that carry pain signals.

Botox is the FDA-approved method for chronic migraines (headaches for 15 or more days a month). This procedure is more effective for those who have more frequent headaches. Botox is not recommended for patients who experience fewer than 15 headache days a month.

Botox can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions including cervical dystonia, chronic migraine, muscle contractures, and more.

Chronic Migraine: Chronic Migraine is one that lasts at least 15 headache days per month with at least eight of those days having migraine-like symptoms. In 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States approved Botox for the preventative treatment of chronic migraines. Botox is prescribed for people with persistent migraines who experience at least 15 headaches per month that last for four hours or more. Botox injections can help patients with chronic migraines reduce the frequency of their headaches as well as the debilitating symptoms that come with them.

Cervical Dystonia: Botox is also used for the treatment of cervical dystonia, which is a condition where your neck muscles spasm uncontrollably, causing your head to painfully turn or twist to one side.

Muscle contractures: Botox enters nerve cells where it releases an enzyme that stops muscles from contracting, thereby relieving symptoms of spasticity like muscle contraction or muscle stiffness.

Botox Treatment Procedure At Kansas Pain Management

Kansas Pain Management provides comprehensive interventional pain management services for patients. Our physicians are trained to inject small amounts of botox into shallow muscles in the skin. Treatment normally involves injections in crucial areas of the head and neck. Botox Treatment Process at Kansas Pain Management is carried out by the award-winning physicians that use an ultrasound guided approach to ensure the needle is injecting the botox into the correct muscles.

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   Toni Seyhun 
 May 15, 2023
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I started seeing Dr Kneeman a few months ago. He is kind and listens to you. I've had the best experience with him. Just had a spinal injection and he made sure I was not uncomfortable.  He is the best!
  
 
       
   Deborah Spindler 
 February 14, 2023
 
 
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   Ally Ludlum 
 December 9, 2022
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Dr. Kneeman took over my care about a year ago, though I have been under KPA's care for about 6 years now.

I started with Dr. Gupta.  I had been unable to work due to Occipital Neuralgia (diagnosed just before I came to Dr. Gupta), and Dr. Gupta got me back to work in about 3 years, which was an amazing feat!

With my treatment plan in place, and Dr. Gupta spending less time at the pain clinic in Ottawa, I started seeing others in his practice.  They were great doctors!  But I never felt the same level of engagement with them as I had felt with Dr. Gupta.

Then I found Dr. Kneeman!!

I am always a nervous wreck when I see someone new, but Dr. Kneeman is awesome!  Calm as a cucumber while still being very engaged!  He's very thorough and very practiced with the tools of his trade!

When we decided it was time to renew my RFA (radiofrequency ablation) and we went to do the nerve-block tests, Dr. Kneeman prevented me from experiencing potentially terrifying side-effects!

There had been a miscommunication from the last time I had nerve block done (not with KPM) and I was not supposed to be taking OTC aspirin for a week prior to the blocks!  (Which I had been as I had no idea!)

Dr. Kneeman is the one who discovered this, through the nurse asking him about Ibuprofen that I had taken earlier the day before so he came in to talk to me.

We could not do the nerve block that day, but I was, and am, incredibly grateful that he caught the issue before it could become a terrifying experience!

Yesterday I had my RFA with him, and he was just as awesome as ever!  It helped that I knew I was in amazingly competent hands, so it seemed like no time at all I was back at home, feeling better already!

TlDr:  I started with Dr. Gupta (who remains awesome), but I am also ecstatically happy that I am now Dr. Kneeman's patient.  Both doctors are absolutely incredible and I am so, so grateful to and for them.
  
 
       
   Amanda Concannon 
 December 6, 2022
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. The Doctors and nursing staff are so wonderful here. They listen to you and work diligently to make you more comfortable.  I have lived with an enormous amount of pain for too long. Washing dishes,  cooking, getting into my bed and sleeping ,and several minor activities are so painful for me. The doctors here have worked with me and have given me treatment that has made an enormous difference in my life. I recommend them 100% over any other place you could go.
  
 
       
   Tom Davidson 
 September 23, 2022
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. I've been going to see Dr. GUPTA for several years. He interested me in using a Nevro Device for the pain in my legs & back. Many years ago I had back surgery & over the years the pain had gotten almost unbearable.  The device was a godsend.  The follow ups by Nevro people were great & helpful. The staff are very helpful and friendly.
  
 
       
   Opal Watson 
 September 23, 2022
 
 
 Trustindex verifies that the original source of the review is Google. Good experience every time..staff is great...Dr Gupta is the best...have experiences with him over several years....