Spinal injections: getting hold of the wrong end of the stick

Affiliations

¹ Spine Intervention Unit, Trauma Salut,Centre de malalties de l'aparell locomotor i medicina de l'esport, Joan Oliu 7, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain Orthopedic Surgery Department, Trauma Salut, Centre de malalties de l'aparell locomotor i medicina de l'esport, Joan Oliu 7, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain.

Comment

Jose Luis De Córdoba et al. Pain. 2006 Jan.

. 2006 Jan;120(1-2):222-223.

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.10.011. Epub 2005 Dec 19.

¹ Spine Intervention Unit, Trauma Salut,Centre de malalties de l'aparell locomotor i medicina de l'esport, Joan Oliu 7, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain Orthopedic Surgery Department, Trauma Salut, Centre de malalties de l'aparell locomotor i medicina de l'esport, Joan Oliu 7, 08201 Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain.

No abstract available

Comment on

Primum non nocere--first do no harm.
Butler SH. Butler SH. Pain. 2005 Aug;116(3):175-176. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.03.034. Pain. 2005. PMID: 15982811 No abstract available.

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