Facet guidelines, serial medial branch blocks and issues surrounding recommending procedures with no mechanistic foundation

Steven P Cohen¹, David Anthony Provenzano^{2

3}, Samer Narouze⁴

Affiliations

¹ Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA scohen40@jhmi.edu.
² Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care.
⁴ Center for Pain Medicine, Summa Western Reserve Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.

Comment

Steven P Cohen et al. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;46(3):287.

doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101634. Epub 2020 May 31.

Steven P Cohen¹, David Anthony Provenzano^{2

3}, Samer Narouze⁴

¹ Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA scohen40@jhmi.edu.
² Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care.
⁴ Center for Pain Medicine, Summa Western Reserve Hospital, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: analgesia; back pain; diagnostic techniques and procedures; injections, spinal; pain management.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: SPC has consulted for Abbott, SPR Therapeutics, Scilex, Avanos and Persica in the past 12 months.

Inconsistencies in the consensus facet joint guidelines.
Helm S, Benyamin R. Helm S, et al. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 Mar;46(3):286. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2020-101590. Epub 2020 May 31. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021. PMID: 32475828 No abstract available.