Evidence-based cervical facet consensus: access or outcome?

Affiliations

¹ Emeritus BOD, Spine Intervention Society, Tiburon, California, USA rickderby@sbcglobal.net.
² VA Boston Healthcare Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of PM&R, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Editorial

Richard Derby et al. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;47(1):1-2.

doi: 10.1136/rapm-2021-103111. Epub 2021 Nov 11.

¹ Emeritus BOD, Spine Intervention Society, Tiburon, California, USA rickderby@sbcglobal.net.
² VA Boston Healthcare Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of PM&R, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: diagnostic techniques and procedures; injections; neck pain; nerve block; spinal.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for cervical spine (facet) joint pain from a multispecialty international working group.
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