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Spinal Injections for Low Back Pain: Evidence-Based Treatment

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Evidence-Based Neuroimaging Diagnosis and Treatment

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Abstract

Low back pain is a distinctly different condition from lumbar radicular pain (sometimes called “sciatica”). Radicular pain is lancinating pain that travels into the lower limb along a narrow band [1]. It is caused by disc herniation, foraminal stenosis, lateral recess stenosis, or other space-occupying lesions in the vertebral canal that compromise lumbosacral nerve roots. In contrast, low back is dull, aching pain that is centered on the lumbar, or lumbosacral, spine but may radiate into the buttocks or proximal thigh; it can radiate beyond the knee but not typically so. Its causes are elusive and difficult to determine.

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  1. Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    John A. Carrino

  2. Newcastle Bone and Joint Institute, Royal Newcastle Center, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, 2300, NSW, Australia

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  1. Division of Neuroradiology-Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, USA

    L. Santiago Medina

  2. Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

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  3. Former Lecturer in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    L. Santiago Medina

  4. Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

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  5. Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Carrino, J.A., Bogduk, N. (2013). Spinal Injections for Low Back Pain: Evidence-Based Treatment. In: Medina, L.S., Sanelli, P.C., Jarvik, J.G. (eds) Evidence-Based Neuroimaging Diagnosis and Treatment. Evidence-Based Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3320-0_30

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