Percutaneous radiofrequency denervation of spinal facets

Treatment for chronic back pain and sciatica

C. Norman Shealy The Pain Rehabilitation Center, S.C., La Crosse, Wisconsin

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✓ A technique for radiofrequency localization and coagulation of articular nerves supplying the spinal facets is described and results are reported from a series of 207 patients followed 6 to 21 months (mean 13 months). Relief of pain was achieved in 79% of previously unoperated patients, in 41% of those with laminectomy but no fusion, and in 27% of those with an earlier fusion. No neurological complications were encountered.

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    Shealy CN, , Preito A, & Burton C, et al: Radiofrequency percutaneous rhizotomy of the articular nerve of Luschka: an alternative approach to chronic low back pain and sciatica. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, April, 1973 Shealy CN, Preito A, Burton C, et al: Radiofrequency percutaneous rhizotomy of the articular nerve of Luschka: an alternative approach to chronic low back pain and sciatica. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, April, 1973

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