Assessment of the escalating growth of facet joint interventions in the Medicare population in the United States from 2000 to 2011

Pain Physician

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Manchikanti, Laxmaiah ^a,f   Pampati, Vidyasagar ^a,b   Singh, Vijay ^c   Falco, Frank J E ^d,e,g  

^a PAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER OF PADUCAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c Spine Pain Diagnostics Associates   (United States)

^d Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians   (United States)

^e TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^g TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic spinal pain; Facet joint injections; Interventional pain management; Interventional techniques; Medial branch blocks; Radiofrequency neurotomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC PAIN; FACET JOINT INJECTION; FACET JOINT INTERVENTION; FACET JOINT NERVE BLOCK; FACET JOINT NEUROTOMY; HUMAN; INJECTION; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICARE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE SURGERY; NURSE ANESTHETIST; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; RADIOFREQUENCY NEUROTOMY; REHABILITATION; SACRUM; SPINAL PAIN; THORACIC SPINE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 84880579106     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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