Spinal injections for low back pain: evidence-based treatment

Title: Spinal injections for low back pain: evidence-based treatment
Creator: Carrino, John A.; Bogduk, Nikolai
Relation: Evidence-Based Neuroimaging Diagnosis and Treatment: Improving the Quality of Neuroimaging in Patient Care p. 499-510
Relation: Evidence-Based Imaging
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3320-0_30
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2013
Description: Low back pain is a distinctly different condition from lumbar radicular pain (sometimes called “sciatica”). Radicular pain is lancinating pain that travels into the lower limb along a narrow band. It is caused by disc herniation, foraminal stenosis, lateral recess stenosis, or other space-occupying lesions in the vertebral canal that compromise lumbosacral nerve roots. In contrast, low back is dull, aching pain that is centered on the lumbar, or lumbosacral, spine but may radiate into the buttocks or proximal thigh; it can radiate beyond the knee but not typically so. Its causes are elusive and difficult to determine.
Subject: imaging; radiology; neuroradiology; neurosurgery
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066707
Identifier: uon:18193
Identifier: ISBN:9781461433194
Language: eng