Mechanical Needling with Sterile Water versus Steroids Injection for Facet Joint Syndrome: A Retrospective Observational Study

Image-guided facet joint injection

Chronic spine pain poses a peculiar diagnostic and therapeutic challenge due to multiple pain sources, overlapping clinical features and nonspecific radiological findings. Facet joint injection is an interventional pain management tool for facet-related spinal pain that can be effectively administered by a radiologist. This technique is the gold standard for identifying facet joints as the sour...

Facet Joint Injection for Low Back Pain

Therapeutic injection of facet joints is now widely practised, but British experience has been infrequently reported. We studied the results of injecting facet joints with a corticosteroid preparation in 50 patients suffering from the “facet syndrome”. Our series included a number of exfra-articular injections and these “failed injections” provide a useful control group. Results indicate that o...

Sterile water for injection field technology (SWIFT).

Patients' response to facet joint injection.

The aim of the present study was to assess prospectively patients' response to facet joint injection performed for lumbar back pain, and to check if it correlates with the response predicted by the Helbig and Lee scoring system. Fifty-seven patients who had facet joint injections for mechanical low back pain unresponsive to medical treatment, were followed-up. Patients' perception of improvemen...

Facet joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (Facet Injection Study): a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 2009 guidelines for persistent low back pain (LBP) do not recommend the injection of therapeutic substances into the back as a treatment for LBP because of the absence of evidence for their effectiveness. This feasibility study aimed to provide a stable platform that could be used to evaluate a randomised controlled trial (...