Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 3/2009

Back pain – clinical algorithm and basic diagnostic techniques in interventional pain medicine

The goal of both authors is to describe the potential of interventional pain techniques in clinical management of chronic back pain. They would like to show the importance of causal diagnostics in order to achieve effective treatment. They also describe basic diagnostic techniques, their clinical background and evaluation. The facts used in the article come from various literature sources and from own clinical experience.

Keywords: back pain, interventional techniques, diagnostic, therapy, algorithm, radiofrequency denervation.