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Interventional pain management for spinal disorders: a review of injection techniques

verfasst von: Mathias Wewalka, MD, MSc

Erschienen in: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift | Ausgabe 1-2/2016

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Summary

Chronic spinal pain has a high prevalence and a severe economic, societal and health impact. In the last decades the practice and research of interventional techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of spinal pain has increased sharply. The level of evidence of the most common techniques is well documented. With image-guided precise diagnostic blocks it is possible to identify the source of chronic spinal pain in well over 60% of the cases. Nonsurgical specialties such as PM&R increasingly resort to the possibilities of interventional pain management for musculoskeletal disorders. For many forms of spinal pain there is at least fair evidence for long-term pain relief after a guided therapeutic injection often reducing the intake of analgesic medication or the need for surgery. This review focuses on the evidence, the application spectrum and special considerations of injection techniques for the treatment of spinal disorders.
Vorheriger Artikel Aspects of physical medicine and rehabilitation in geriatrics
Nächster Artikel Sedation and analgosedation performed by pediatricians—experience made with the implementation of an in-house sedation standard
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Metadaten
Titel
Interventional pain management for spinal disorders: a review of injection techniques
verfasst von
Mathias Wewalka, MD, MSc
Publikationsdatum
01.02.2016
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift / Ausgabe 1-2/2016
Print ISSN: 0043-5341
Elektronische ISSN: 1563-258X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10354-015-0416-z

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