News & Press: Clinical Practice

SIS Publishes 2 New Systematic Reviews: Cervical Medial Branch RF Neurotomy and DRG Stimulation

Tuesday, December 15, 2020  
Cervical Medial Branch Radiofrequency Neurotomy (published November 2020)
To determine the effectiveness of cervical medial branch thermal radiofrequency neurotomy based on different selection criteria, Andrew Engel, MD; Wade King, MMedSc, MMed (Pain); Byron J Schneider, MD; Belinda Duszynski; and Nikolai Bogduk, MD, PhD published Effectiveness of Cervical Medial Branch Thermal Radiofrequency Neurotomy, Stratified for Selection Criteria: A Systematic Review of the Literature on behalf of the Standards Division of the Spine Intervention Society.

Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurostimulation (available now via advance access)
On behalf of the SIS Standards Division, Ameet Nagpal, MD, MS, MEd; Nathan Clements, MD; Belinda Duszynski; and Brian Boies, MD published The Effectiveness of Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurostimulation in the Treatment of Chronic Pelvic Pain and Chronic Neuropathic Pain of the Lower Extremity: A Comprehensive Review of the Published Data.

View the abstracts at the links above. SIS members may click here to log in to the SIS website for full access to all the articles in Pain Medicine through December 31, 2020.