Intracept™ Procedure

Intracept™ Procedure

Saying Yes to Life and to Lasting Pain
Relief

That’s the living proof of the Intracept™ Procedure: The only targeted way to
relieve vertebrogenic chronic low back pain (CLBP). Here’s the basics:

A Certain Nerve Is the Key
Vertebral endplates – found on either side of the disc – can become damaged
over time, causing inflammation and back pain. The basivertebral nerve
(BVN), found within the vertebrae, carries these back pain signals from the
inflamed endplates to the brain.

The Intracept Procedure is a same-day procedure performed in an outpatient
surgery center. Unlike some major surgeries, the Intracept Procedure is
implant-free and preserves the overall structure of the spine.
The Intracept Procedure involves heating the basivertebral nerve with a
radiofrequency probe to stop it from sending pain signals to the brain. Patients
are under anesthesia, and the procedure generally lasts an hour.
Different from other nerves in the body that regenerate, the BVN has not
shown an ability to grow back as a pain-transmitting nerve following the
Intracept Procedure.