Facet joint pain is a common source of chronic low back pain, often resulting from ... radiofrequency neurotomy does not lead to fatty degeneration of the lumbar paraspinal muscles, alleviating ...

The main causes of facet hypertrophy include spinal degeneration, synovial inflammation ... Although the lumbar spine located ...

Facet arthropathy, also known as facet osteoarthritis, is a type of wear-and-tear arthritis affecting the spine. It affects the bony protrusions, called facet joints, that connect the bones of the ...

This condition can be associated with various spinal issues, including low back pain and degenerative ... body area and more severe degeneration of lumbar discs and facet joints compared to ...

Objective: To compare the efficacy and tolerability of dexamethasone-21-palmitate and mepivacaine alone and in combination in the acute treatment of facet syndrome ... of low back pain, which ...

Objectives: To observe the prevalence of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in elite athletes as compared with published literature of changes seen in non-athletes—that is, normal population.