Background: Chronic axial spinal pain is one of the major causes of significant disability and
health care costs, with facet joints as one of the proven causes of pain. Objective: To provide …

Facetogenic pain, also known as zygapophysial joint pain, is a frequent cause of
mechanical spine pain. Diagnostic blocks (for example, medial branch blocks [MBBs]) are …

Background The past two decades have witnessed a surge in the use of lumbar facet blocks
and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) to treat low back pain (LBP), yet nearly all aspects of the …

Background The accuracy of diagnostic tests available in primary care to identify the disc,
sacroiliac joint, and facet joint as the source of low back pain is uncertain. Methods …

Abstract What We Already Know about This Topic Facet blocks, including intraarticular and
medial branch blocks, are frequently used before radiofrequency ablation, but their validity …

Background: Lumbar facet joints are a well recognized source of low back pain and referred
pain in the lower extremity in patients with chronic low back pain. Conventional clinical …

Study design. A scoping review. Objective. We aimed to identify and describe the factors
associated with the patient-reported response after lumbar intra-articular facet joint (FJ) …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The clinical impact of facet joint bone scan activity is not
fully understood. The hypothesis of this study is that facet joints targeted for percutaneous …

Skeletal scintigraphy is one of the most frequent in vivo procedures in the field of nuclear
medicine. Visualizing bone metabolism, it exhibits a fairly high sensitivity to detect skeletal …

In many circumstances, causing sites of low back pain (LBP) cannot be determined only by
anatomical imaging. Combined functional and morphological imaging such as bone scan …