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Percutaneous Radio-Frequency Neurotomy for Chronic Cervical Zygapophyseal-Joint Pain NEJM 335:1721-1726, Lord,S.M.,et al, 1996 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The median time that elapsed before the pain returned to at least 50%of the preoperative level was 263 days in the active treatment group and 8 days in the control group.At 27 weeks,7 patients in the active treatment group and one patient in the control group were free of pain.Five patients in the active treatment group had numbness in the territory of the treated nerves,but none considered it troubling.In patients width chronic cervical zygapophyseal joint pain confirmed with double-blind,placebo-controlled local anesthesia,percutaneous radio frequency neurotomy with multiple lesions of target nerves can provide lasting relief.

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