Advanced concepts in interventional spine care.
This review of interventional treatment of the spine emphasizes the need for aggressive pain control as a means of preventing persistent pain. The use and application of lumbar epidural injections, facet blocks/denervation, lysis of epidural adhesions, thermal annuloplasty, radiofrequency neurotomy, and nucleoplasty are the treatment options described. These descriptions are not all-inclusive of advanced treatment options for patients with spine pain.
D000328:Adult; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy