Procedures that target the driving source of pain can be beneficial. Not only do they reduce the need for bodily exposure to medications but they can also directly address the driving cause of pain. This is a rapidly growing field of medicine and many treatments are promising but still experimental. Some examples of procedures include:
 

• Surgical correction
• Joint injections
• Platelet-rich plasma injections
• Stem cell injections
• Radiofrequency ablation
• Intrathecal drug delivery devices
• Spinal cord stimulators