RT Book, Section
A1 O'Neill, Conor W.
A1 Derby, Richard
A1 Kenderes, Laura R.
A2 Warfield, Carol A.
A2 Bajwa, Zahid H.
SR Print(0)
ID 3410254
T1 Chapter 11. Diagnostic Injections for Spine Pain
T2 Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine, 2e
YR 2004
FD 2004
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071443494
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3410254
RD 2024/09/11
AB Identifying  the  specific  pathology  responsible  for  spinal  pain  is  often  difficult.  This  is  particularly  true  given  the  high  incidence  of  anatomic  abnormalities  in  asymptomatic  individuals,  and  the  presence  of  normal  anatomy  in  some  painful  individuals,  at  least  as  demonstrated  on  conventional  imaging  studies.1,2  The  primary  purpose  of  diagnostic  injections  for  chronic  spinal  pain  is  to  identify  which  anatomic  structure  of  the  spine  is  causing  pain  and  what  is  the  pathologic  disorder  affecting  it.  Before  performing  these  injections,  the  clinical  utility  of  making  an  anatomic  diagnosis  should  be  well  established.