Treatment of cervicothoracic pain and cervicogenic headaches with regenerative injection therapy

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-48

  Linetsky, Felix S ^a   Miguel, Rafael ^b   Torres, Francisco ^b  

^a Nova Southeastern University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL ALCOHOL; COD LIVER OIL; COLLAGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GROWTH FACTOR; HORMONE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MORRHUATE SODIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENOL; PLACEBO; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SODIUM; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIGAMENT DISEASE; MYALGIA; NECK PAIN; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROLOTHERAPY; REGENERATIVE INJECTION THERAPY; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SHOULDER PAIN; TISSUE REGENERATION; WHIPLASH INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; INTRAARTICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; RADICULOPATHY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; VERTEBRA;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CLINICAL TRIALS; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LIDOCAINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PHENOL; POLYRADICULOPATHY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; SODIUM MORRHUATE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 1642586995     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-004-0039-3     Document Type: Review

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