Spine injections should not be given to adults with chronic back pain because they provide little or no pain relief compared with sham injections, say a panel of international experts in The BMJ ...

Chronic spine pain, defined as persistent pain along ... and radiofrequency nerve ablation are frequently used, clinical guidelines have offered conflicting recommendations regarding their ...

Spine injections should not be given to adults ... Procedures such as epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation (using radio waves to destroy nerves) are widely used ...

A new procedure called basivertebral nerve ablation, or BVN, shuts off the pain signal from the spine to the brain. Dr. Barrette says, “This is, really, one of the first great breakthroughs we ...