Audit of conservative management of chronic low back pain in a secondary care setting - Part I: Facet joint and sacroiliac joint interventions

Acupuncture in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 207-213

  Chakraverty, Robin ^a   Dias, Richard ^a  

^a ROYAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Chronic low back pain; Corticosteroid injection; Diagnosis; Facet joint; Prolotherapy; Radiofrequency denervation; Sacroiliac joint

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIGAMENT PROLOTHERAPY INJECTION; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SACROILIAC JOINT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11344278022     PISSN: 09645284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/aim.22.4.207     Document Type: Article

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