Chronic pain is often treated as a problem at the site of injury: a sore shoulder, a sensitive nerve, a joint that never quite healed. But for many, the pain continues long after the original issue should have resolved. When that happens, the source of pain isn’t always just the tissue—it may also be the nervous system.

This is where Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) comes in:

SGB is a targeted, image-guided injection near a bundle of nerves in the neck called the stellate ganglion. These nerves are part of the sympathetic nervous system—the system responsible for your body’s “fight-or-flight” response.