A Controlled Trial of Corticosteroid Injections into Facet Joints for Chronic Low Back Pain
Open Access
- 3 October 1991
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 325 (14), 1002-1007
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199110033251405
Abstract
Chronic low back pain is a common problem with many treatments, few of which have been rigorously evaluated. This randomized, placebo-controlled trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy of injections of corticosteroid into facet joints to treat chronic low back pain.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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