Chronic Low Back Pain
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Treatments for Chronic Low Back Pain
Lumbar facet injection
A local anesthetic (numbing medicine) and corticosteroid (anti-inflammatory medicine) are injected into one or more of your lumbar facet joints.
Lumbar medial branch block
An anesthetic is injected near your medial branch nerve.
Lumbar radio frequency ablation (RFA)
Radiofrequency energy is used to disrupt nerve function at a lumbar medial branch nerve to stop pain transmitting from an injured facet joint.