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This blog page contains the latest news and developments in the field of chronic pain and its management

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Are Facet Joint Injections Any Good?

Facet joint injections with cortisone have been offered as a treatment for mechanical low back pain for at least 60 years. More recently however, this practice has been becoming increasingly controversial on both clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness grounds.
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Sympathy Versus Empathy

Ever since my student days, when first introduced to the concept of sympathy versus empathy, I have to confess that I have never been able to fully and deeply grasp what these terms actually mean.
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