Facet hypertrophy is when the joints that help articulate the spinal column—called facet joints—become enlarged, resulting in ...

Medically reviewed by Amy Kwan, PT Low back and hip pain typically affect one side of the body. However, it is possible to ...

Back pain is the most common complaint in a pain ... one may conclude that with careful patient selection, RF lesioning of the facet joint is effective with a number needed to treat of 1.1 and ...

As a follow up study, we made observations on 17 other runners who often experience episodes of ETAP and found that palpation of specific facet joints could reproduce symptoms of ETAP shortly after an ...

A pain management expert can also discuss other possibilities, including facet joint injections, other types of injections, electrothermal and radiofrequency treatments, Botox, and spinal cord ...