The indication for tre
atment of facet joint is chronic or acute neck, chest or back pain due to osteoarthritis of the spine.
The patients often suffer from exercise-pain without radiation to the arms or the legs. Usually the pain is particularly strong in the morning after waking up, leave during the day after only three, but when loaded again in their intensity. A numbness or tingling most patients deny it.
Through pain, it is often a painful limitation of movement. Thus the muscles are increasingly weaker, which in turn adversely affect the course of the disease.
If, in spite of conservative treatment options, exercise and sport is no improvement in sight, offers the interventional pain therapy as an alternative or micro. Through a targeted therapy in the facet joints or the blockade of the nerves supplying the facet joints with an effective therapy can your symptoms begin. The treatment of this disease consists first of a CT-guided injection therapy targeted to the spinal joints - both in the joint and around the joint - in the form of drugs installation. If to be of increasing improvement is achieved, with the help of targeted physiotherapy exercise the affected muscle groups..
