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Dr. Pat Consults: Joint Injections for Lower-Back Pain

By Dr. James F. Wyss, MD, PT

"My orthopedist offered to do facet injections into my spine to see if it would help the pain and help me work with a physical therapist again. This sounds really frightening to me. What is the injection, actually?"

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Dr. Pat Consults: Lower-Back Pain—Searching for the Specific Cause

By Dr. James F. Wyss, MD, PT

Most patients describe their MRI findings of the lumbar spine—“I have a disc bulge, stenosis, and arthritis of the spine”—but they usually don’t know if any of these findings is responsible for their pain.