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RF for Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation

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Approximately 80 % of the people suffer from some type of low back pain, during the course of their lives [21], and this pathology is one of the most common causes of workday loss and it has a huge impact on social life [2, 11, 18, 19, 21, 41]. Several causes can trigger low back pain, such as congenital disorders, tumors, traumas, intoxication, degeneration related to aging, infections, vascular disorders, mechanical causes, and psychogenic causes [13, 18, 35]; by far degenerative disorders, and in particular disc herniation, are the most common causes [1]. Treatment of disc herniation evolved in the last years: a switch from surgical to conservative approach took place, because many researches point out that more commonly than not, disc herniation heals from itself [11, 19, 23, 34, 37, 40]. Percutaneous disc decompression is in a middle ground between surgery and waiting approach, which should combine them and therefore should carry the best of both worlds [1, 4, 15, 17, 23, 25, 26, 32, 39, 42].

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Marcia, S., Mereu, A., Spinelli, A., Saba, L. (2017). RF for Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation. In: Marcia, S., Saba, L. (eds) Radiofrequency Treatments on the Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41462-1_5

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