A comparison of intraarticular lumbar facet joint steroid injections and lumbar facet joint radiofrequency denervation in the treatment of low back pain: a randomized, controlled, double-blind trial.

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Published in Anesth Analg on April 30, 2013

Authors

Stefan Lakemeier1, Marcel Lind, Wolfgang Schultz, Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann, Nina Timmesfeld, Christian Foelsch, Christian D Peterlein

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Orthopedics, University Hospital Goettingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany. stefan.lakemeier@med.uni-goettingen.de

Associated clinical trials:

Prognostic Factors in Zygapophyseal Osteoarthritis Infiltration: a Prospective Cohort Study | NCT03304730

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