Role of injection therapy: Review of indications for trigger point injections, regional blocks, facet joint injections, and intra-articular injections

Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 52-57

  Kim, Philip S ^a  

^a PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; STEROID;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOCICEPTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; NERVE BLOCK; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 0036143860     PISSN: 10408711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002281-200201000-00010     Document Type: Review

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