6 Modified Independence - Patient can be left alone for an entire day but may need some degree of supervision with new or complex activities. Routine activities can be pursued independently. Helper
You may resume normal activities the day after the procedure, unless otherwise directed by your physician. It may take a week or more for you to feel relief after a facet joint injection. Because of the diagnostic nature of a medial branch block, pain relief may start immediately but last only a few hours. Several weeks may be required to feel the full effect of a radiofrequency ablation procedure.
Another striking thing regarding PecÂ´s Block II is that Blanco et al [6] note that the analgesia onset was three minutes on average, and lasted for 8 hours (480 min) however in this paper using levobupivacaine 0.125% the duration of the sensory loss was relatively higher than the PecÂ´s Block II (270-840 min).