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Are Facet Joint Injections Any Good?

2 Comments / Low Back Pain, NICE Guideline, Public Interest / By Michael Stafford / 22/07/2020 22/07/2020

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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Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain (Part 1)

Leave a Comment / Invasive Therapy, Low Back Pain, NICE Guideline, Pharmacology / By Michael Stafford / 20/07/2020 21/07/2020

This is a brief summary of the 2016 NICE guideline for the management of chronic low back pain

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