by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 20, 2011 | Conditions, Disc Degenerative Disease, home page articles, Low Back Pain
GENERAL Disc Degenerative Disease (DDD) is the distortion of the interior architecture of an intervertebral disc, not necessarily because of disc protrusion and with no clinical signs of nerve root compression. It is estimated that approximately 40% of patients...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 16, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL Discography is a minimally invasive technique used to show to which extent one or more intervertebral discs are the origin of chronic pain in low back or neck pain. Although the MRI can reveal intervertebral disc degeneration, it is just an image...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 16, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL Compression fractures due to osteoporosis occur to quite a great number of people annually. The most frequent among them are hip fractures resulting in prolonged disability and severe pain. Until recently, physicians had limited therapeutic options to treat...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 9, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL Adhesiolysis in the epidural region is known as the RACZ application, named after the man who discovered it. Adhesiolysis is the disruption (lysis) of adhesions and is a minimally invasive technique that was developed in the late 80s by Anaesthesiologist and...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jan 9, 2011 | General Categories Of Interventional Pain Therapies, Treatments
A). Selected drug injection (local anaesthetics, corticosteroids, alcohol, medical cement) into peripheral nerves, spinal nerve roots, vertebrae and sympathetic ganglia) for diagnostic and therapeutic reasons. Such cases are the following: 1. Lumbar transforaminal...
