Thoracic facet blocks: bent needle technique.

Pain Physician

Spine Technology and Rehabilitation, 7230 Engle Road, Suite 210, Fort Wayne, IN-46804, USA.

Published: October 2003

Thoracic posterior joints are putative pain generators; yet there is a paucity of information to assist the clinician in the diagnosis and treatment of dorsal spine pain. A safe and effective bent needle injection/arthrography technique is described which can assist in the diagnosis of some patients with thoracic zygapophyseal joint dysfunction.

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