Introduction Headaches remain notoriously difficult to treat despite advances in therapy. This is in part due to difficulty of classification and contributions of referred pain. While traditional treatments targeted intracranial…
Introduction The human body’s nervous system is broken into the central and peripheral nervous systems. The peripheral nervous system is further subdivided into the somatic nervous system, which controls skeletal…
Introduction Pain is a complex biopsychosocial phenomenon that is best described as more than just where it hurts, but also how it impacts quality of life, physical function, social participation,…
Introduction Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a procedure utilizing electric current to create a thermal lesion that results in ablating a specified target. For facetogenic joint pain, the targeted lesion is…
Introduction Medial branch blocks (MBB) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) are two techniques utilized in interventional pain management to diagnose and treat low back pain (LBP) arising from the spinal facet…
Introduction Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee joint is one of the leading causes of chronic disability, and conservative approaches to treatment have been shown to have limited long-term efficacy. ,…
Introduction Chronic ankle pain is a common condition with consequences of limited mobility, gait instability, and decreased physical activity. Its prevalence increases with age and obesity. It can be the…
Introduction Shoulder pain is a common and potentially debilitating musculoskeletal condition that reportedly up to 30 percent of the general population may experience. , It is consistently reported as one…
Introduction Both globally and in the United States, low back pain (LBP) has been the number-one cause of years lived with disability from 1990 to 2016. As the global population…
Introduction The high prevalence of low back pain has made it a common cause of outpatient and inpatient healthcare visits. Lumbar facet joint pain is a common challenge presented to…
