Musculoskeletal pain is a challenging condition for both patients and physicians. Many
adults have experienced one or more episodes of musculoskeletal pain at some time of their …

BACKGROUND: Chronic spinal pain is the most prevalent chronic disease with employment
of multiple modes of interventional techniques including epidural interventions. Multiple …

Background The past two decades have witnessed a surge in the use of cervical spine joint
procedures including joint injections, nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation to treat …

Managing antithrombotic and antiplatelet therapy is one of the common issues while
performing interventional techniques to balance the bleeding risk and perioperative risk of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the entire world and catapulted the United States into
one of the deepest recessions in history. While this pandemic rages, the opioid crisis …

Radiofrequency neurotomy (RFN), also known as radiofrequency ablation (RFA), is a
common interventional procedure used to treat pain from an innervated structure. RFN has …

Background: Epidural injections are one of the commonly performed procedures in
managing low back and lower extremity pain. In the past, Pinto et al and Chou et al …

BACKGROUND: The Best Practices in Pain Management from the US Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) describes interventional techniques as part of a continuum …

Background: Traditional pain assessment methods have significant limitations due to the
high variability in patient reported pain scores and perception of pain by different individuals …

Background: The trends of the expenditures of facet joint interventions have not been
specifically assessed in the fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare population since 2009 …