Pain physician
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Meta Analysis
The Role of Unilateral Balloon Kyphoplasty for the Treatment of Patients with OVCFS: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
An increasing number of studies have been conducted to apply unilateral balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of ostroporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs). However, the efficacy and safety of unilateral kyphoplasty and whether a unilateral or a bilateral approach is superior is controversial. ⋯ Unilateral balloon kyphoplasty, bilateral balloon kyphoplasty, osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, complications of balloon kyphoplasty, meta-analysis.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of Different Volumes on Pain Relief in Patient Receiving Fluoroscopic Guided Interlaminar Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection.
Epidural steroids injections (ESI) are frequently used to treat lumbar radicular pain. Although different volume have been used for interlaminar ESI in adults, there is no controlled trial comparing the effect of different volumes on pain relief for the same dose of steroid . ⋯ Epidural steroid, volume, low back pain, interlaminar.
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Chronic pain is a major public health problem resulting in physical and emotional pain for individuals and families, loss of productivity, and an annual cost of billions of dollars. The lack of objective measures available to aid in diagnosis and evaluation of therapies for chronic pain continues to be a challenge for the clinician. ⋯ Functional connectivity, fMRI, chronic pain, chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, diabetic neuropathy, chronic regional pain syndrome.
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Navigated percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy (PECD) is a promising minimally invasive surgery for treating cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. PECD has been described as a safe, effective, and minimally invasive method for patients with radiculopathy, but it comes with a steep learning curve. Due to the limited field of vision, anatomic localization is difficult for surgeons until using the O-arm based navigation. In this study, patients with radiculopathy due to foraminal disc herniation or foraminal stenosis in the lower cervical spine underwent the single level full endoscopic posterior cervical foraminotomy procedure assisted by O-arm-based navigation. ⋯ Minimally invasive, cervical foraminotomy, endoscopic, navigation, O-arm, percutaneous endoscopic cervical discectomy.