Successful treatment of lumbar discogenic pain using intradiscal biacuplasty in previously discectomized disc

Pain Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 130-134

  Kapural, Leonardo ^a   Cata, Juan P ^a   Narouze, Samer ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Degenerative disc disease; Discogenic pain; IDET; Internal disc disruption; Intervertebral disc; Intradiscal biacuplasty; Radio frequency annuloplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISABILITY SEVERITY; DISCOGENIC PAIN; DISKOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INTRADISCAL ELECTROTHERMAL THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISKECTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61549132831     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2009.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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