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- Title
LESS INVASIVE OPTIONS FOR CHRONIC LUMBAR PAIN: NOTES FOR THE NLCP.
- Authors
Lockeretz, Minda Lee
- Abstract
Anyone who sustains a lower back injury can speak to its debilitating, life altering influence. If conservative medical treatment with rest, ice, physical therapy, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, and often, opioids fails, surgical options exist. However, patients in 2019 may shy away from open back surgeries if less invasive procedural interventions are possible. Nurse Life Care Planners (NLCP) evaluating cases that include lumbar spine injury can further their understanding of two popular less-invasive pain management options: epidural steroid injections (ESI) and radiofrequency ablation (RFA). These procedures close the gap between medical and surgical treatments for chronic back pain. This article highlights how and where these procedures are performed, and who performs them, medications used, indications, cautions for repeated treatment, and finally, CPT codes for common components.
- Subjects
CHRONIC pain treatment; STEROID drugs; LUMBAR pain; BACK injuries; CATHETER ablation; ENDOSCOPIC surgery; FLUOROSCOPY; INSURANCE; LUMBAR vertebrae; NERVE block; NOSOLOGY; PATIENT positioning; STEROIDS; PAIN management; RADIO frequency therapy; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL joint; EPIDURAL analgesia; EPIDURAL injections
- Publication
Journal of Nurse Life Care Planning, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 3, p25
- ISSN
1942-4469
- Publication type
Article