Music therapy significantly reduced anxiety but not pain in nonsedated adults who underwent lumbar medial branch block.

When this procedure is not successful, RF lesioning of the higher facet joints is a treatment option. [20, 27, 28] When it comes to cervical facet medial nerve RFA, there is one randomized ...

Marc Soloman, MD; Mark N Mekhail; Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD Disclosures Expert Rev Neurother. 2010;10 (3):469-474.

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About this study The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and preliminary effectiveness of allogeneic, culture-expanded BM-MSCs in subjects with painful facet joint arthropathy.

Cerapedics’ PearlMatrix P-15 peptide enhanced bone graft for lumbar spinal fusion earned FDA premarket approval, the company said June 23. The FDA granted it a Class III drug-device combination ...

Don Park MD, of Irvine, Calif.-based UCI Health, performed the world’s first endoscopic spinal fusion using augmented reality. Dr. Park wore an AR headset with HD endoscopic video MRI images and EMR ...

Jim Harbaugh had a cardiac ablation after enduring an atrial flutter episode during the 2024 NFL season. Here's what to know about the procedure.

CMS is adding prior authorization requirements for certain fee-for-service procedures under traditional Medicare as part of its new Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model. A total of 17 ...

The management of lumbar radicular pain has evolved considerably in recent years, with increasing emphasis on individualising treatment strategies to address both the peripheral and central ...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) therapy is the gold standard in interventional treatment of many cardiac arrhythmias. A major obstacle is nontransmural lesions, leading to recurrence of arrhythmias.

Material and methods A retrospective multicenter study of 49 patients with 72 painful vertebral lesions, evaluated for clinical and imaging outcomes following RFA and cement augmentation of spinal ...