In the lower back, facet syndrome is characterized by: low back pain; pressure soreness at the level of the facet joints involved; leg pain, but not following a radicular pattern of a pinched nerve; pain increase during rotation movements; greater pain during extension with respect to flexion;...
Reports on the injection of hypertonic saline in the region of the facet joints to produce low back pain. 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...
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 ...