Mooney and Robertson performed saline intra-articular facet injections that resulted in a similar pain referral pattern; however, they noted that the pain was relieved by intra-articular local anesthetic injection. Similar findings were produced in the cervical spine, with cervical facet injection of ...
Most are found in the lumbar spine at the L4/5 level, which is the most mobile lumbar segment; however, they do occur in the cervical spine.They may be asymptomatic, however, can cause a great deal of pain and even cause spinal cord compression in severe cases. Because there is a ...
was not able to identify clinical facet joint syndromes or find predictors of who may respond better to facet joint injections. Furthermore, although pain referral patterns have been identified, investigators have been unable to correlate specific patterns with individual levels...
Variables evaluated for their association with outcome included age, sex, duration of pain, opioid use, pain referral pattern, paraspinal tenderness, pain exacerbated by extension/rotation, magnetic resonance image abnormalities, diabetes, smoking, scoliosis, obesity, prior surgery, and levels treated. ...
Relief of the pain by articular local anesthetic injection; Production of a similar pain referral pattern with intra-articular saline facet injection; Presence of neck pain and headache from cervical facet injection with hypertonic saline.Sunil