Comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for facet joint interventions in the management of chronic spinal pain: American society of interventional pain physicians (asipp) guidelines

Authors

• Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Pain Management Centers of America
• Alan David Kaye, Louisiana State University Health Science Center
• Amol Soin, Wright State University
• Sheri L. Albers, Radiology Research and Consultation
• Douglas Beall, Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma
• Richard E. Latchaw, Radiology Research and Consultation
• Mahendra R. Sanapati, Pain Management Centers of America
• Shalini Shah, University of California, Irvine
• Sairam Atluri, Tri-State Spine Care Institute
• Alaa Abd-Elsayed, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
• Salahadin Abdi, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• Steve Aydin, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
• Sanjay Bakshi, Lenox Hill Hospital
• Mark Boswell, College of Medicine and Life Sciences
• Ricardo M. Buenaventura, Pain Relief of Dayton
• Joseph A. Cabaret
• Aaron K. Calodney, Precision Spine Care
• Kenneth D. Candido, University of Illinois College of Medicine
• Paul J. Christo, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Lynn Cintron, UCI School of Medicine
• Sudhir Diwan
• Christopher Gharibo, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
• Jay Grider, University of Kentucky
• Myank Gupta, Kansas Pain Management & Neuroscience Research Center, LLC
• Bill Haney, Pain Management Center of Paducah (L.M.)
• Michael E. Harned, University of Kentucky
• Standiford Helm, The Helm Center for Pain Management
• Jessica Jameson, Axis Spine Center
• Sunny Jha, University of Southern California
• Adam M. Kaye, University of the PacificFollow
• Nebojsa Nick Knezevic, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

ORCiD

Adam M. Kaye: 0000-0002-7224-3322

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Pain Physician

ISSN

2150-1149

Volume

23

Issue

3S

First Page

S1

Last Page

S127

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

Background: Chronic axial spinal pain is one of the major causes of significant disability and health care costs, with facet joints as one of the proven causes of pain. Objective: To provide evidence-based guidance in performing diagnostic and therapeutic facet joint interventions. Methods: The methodology utilized included the development of objectives and key questions with utilization of trustworthy standards. The literature pertaining to all aspects of facet joint interventions, was reviewed, with a best evidence synthesis of available literature and utilizing grading for recommendations.

Recommended Citation

Manchikanti, L., Kaye, A. D., Soin, A., Albers, S. L., Beall, D., Latchaw, R. E., Sanapati, M. R., Shah, S., Atluri, S., Abd-Elsayed, A., Abdi, S., Aydin, S., Bakshi, S., Boswell, M., Buenaventura, R. M., Cabaret, J. A., Calodney, A. K., Candido, K. D., Christo, P. J., Cintron, L., Diwan, S., Gharibo, C., Grider, J., Gupta, M., Haney, B., Harned, M. E., Helm, S., Jameson, J., Jha, S., Kaye, A. M., & Knezevic, N. N. (2020). Comprehensive evidence-based guidelines for facet joint interventions in the management of chronic spinal pain: American society of interventional pain physicians (asipp) guidelines. Pain Physician, 23(3S), S1–S127.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/phs-facarticles/521

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