Facet Joint Injection: Alleviating Pain in the Spinal Joints

When a facet joint is the source of pain, a facet block injection can help to alleviate the pain. Facet blocks are used as a diagnostic tool used to isolate and confirm the specific source of a patient’s back pain.

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For some patients, the source of their back or neck pain may be the facet joints—pairs of small joints at each vertebral level of the spine. To confirm this source of pain, ...

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Radiofrequency Neurotomy for Facet and Sacroiliac Joint Pain

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