Clinical Evaluation of Cervical Zygapophyseal Joint Pain Patterns

Diagnostic cervical zygapophyseal joint blocks for chronic cervical pain.

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the prevalence of cervical zygapophyseal joint pain in a specialist clinical setting; (2) to review the number of diagnostic blocks needed to identify the segmental level of the symptomatic joints; and (3) to determine the distribution of segmental levels of cervical zygapophyseal joint pain in a clinical setting. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective audit of patients ...

Cervical zygapophysial joint pain maps.

OBJECTIVE To determine the patterns of referred pain in patients with proven cervical zygapophysial joint pain. DESIGN The pain drawings were analyzed of patients with neck pain or headache who underwent controlled, diagnostic blocks, to test whether a zygapophysial joint was the source of their pain. The distribution of pain reported by each patient who had a positive response to blocks at a...

Lumbar zygapophyseal joint injections in patients with chronic lower back pain.

BACKGROUND This study was designed to assess the diagnostic value and clinical benefits of lumbar zygapophyseal joint injections in patients with chronic lower back pain. METHODS Two hundred and seventy-seven patients (136 males and 141 females, aged 15-82 years) with chronic lower back pain were enrolled in the trial and met the following criteria: pain for more than 1 year; no root signs; a...

Patterns of joint pain: lessons from epidemiology.

Clinical Efficacy of Radiofrequency Cervical Zygapophyseal Neurotomy in Patients with Chronic Cervicogenic Headache

The purpose of the present study was to assess the clinical efficacy of radiofrequency (RF) cervical zygapophyseal joint neurotomy in patients with cervicogenic headache. A total of thirty consecutive patients suffering from chronic cervicogenic headaches for longer than 6 months and showing a pain relief by greater than 50% from diagnostic/prognostic blocks were included in the study. These pa...