Facet Joint Denervation in the Treatment of Low Back Pain

摘要

Introduction: Back pain is the most frequent symptom in spine care unit, affecting 60% to 80% of adults during some moment of their lifes. Among all the morphopathological factors contributing to chronic spinal pain, facet joints play a major role in generating spinal pain due to hypermobility and joint degeneration. Some minimally invasive techniques have been developed to treat pain originated at facet joint in the last years.