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Lumbar Injections

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Pain Management and Palliative Care

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Abstract

Low back pain is an extremely common reason for physician visits, as well as lost work time, workers’ compensation claims, and disability. In this chapter, we discuss interventional techniques that can be used in a multimodal approach for the treatment of low back pain. Techniques for interlaminar epidural steroid injections, transforaminal epidural steroid injections, lumbar facet joint injections, lumbar medial branch blocks and radiofrequency ablation of the lumbar medial branch nerves will be described.

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Abbreviations

AP:

Anteroposterior

CSF:

Cerebrospinal fluid

IDD:

Internal Disc Disruption

LESI:

Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection

LMBB:

Lumbar Medial Branch Block

LOR:

Loss of resistance

RFA:

Radio frequency ablation

TFESI:

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection

UTI:

Urinary tract infection

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor Scott & White Health/Texas A&M College of Medicine, 2401 S. 31st Street, Temple, TX, 76508, USA

    Christopher J. Burnett M.D.

  2. Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor Scott & White Health/Texas A&M College of Medicine, Marble Falls, TX, USA

    Rodney R. Lange M.D.

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Correspondence to Christopher J. Burnett M.D. .

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Interventional Pain Management, New York University , Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Kimberly A. Sackheim

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Burnett, C.J., Lange, R.R. (2015). Lumbar Injections. In: Sackheim, K. (eds) Pain Management and Palliative Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2462-2_41

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