Clinical management of radicular pain

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 681-693

  Manchikanti, Laxmaiah ^a,b   Hirsch, Joshua A ^c  

^a PAIN MANAGEMENT CENTER OF PADUCAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical disc herniation; cervical radicular pain; cervical spondylosis; discectomy; epidural steroids; fusion; lumbar disc herniation; lumbar radicular pain; thoracic radicular pain

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISKOGRAPHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ANALGESIA; CHRONIC PAIN; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

CHRONIC PAIN; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84930428226     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.2015.1048226     Document Type: Review

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