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Old 06-01-2012, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by nospam View Post
I believe a diagnostic block is just Marcaine and short acting. A therapeutic block adds steroid and is longer lasting. Often Drs want to do the diagnostic block before therapeutic or ablation/rhizotomy.
My scalene block was marcaine and a little bit of steroid. It didnt last long at all.
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