Pain relief with intraarticular or medial branch nerve blocks in patients with positive lumbar facet joint SPECT imaging: A 12-week outcome study

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 931-934

  Ackerman, William E ^a   Ahmad, Mahmood ^a  

^a United Pain Care Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Facet joint injections; Facet joint pain; SPECT imaging

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; LIDOCAINE; TIZANIDINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE BLOCK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53449099721     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817e6ffb     Document Type: Article

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