Steroid injection—We will inject a numbing medicine and steroid into the painful area ... We may refer you to a pain management specialist if surgery isn’t a good option for you. Spermatic cord ...

In contrast, regional anesthesia is performed by an injection of medicine near a group of nerves to numb the area of your body that requires surgery. There are several kinds of regional anesthesia.

When he was about five, I suggested to my pediatrician that we use the “magical numbing cream” before my son’s shots. There was no magical numbing cream, of course (at least, not that I knew ...