Basivertebral Nerve Ablation

Junjian Huang; Kevin Delijani; Jesse Jones; John Di Capua; Husamuddin El Khudari; Andrew J Gunn; Joshua Hirsch

doi:10.1055/s-0042-1745794

Basivertebral Nerve Ablation

Semin Intervent Radiol. 2022 Jun 30;39(2):162-166. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1745794. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Authors

Junjian Huang¹, Kevin Delijani², Jesse Jones³, John Di Capua⁴, Husamuddin El Khudari¹, Andrew J Gunn¹, Joshua Hirsch⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
² Georgetown Medical School, Washington, District of Columbia.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

Low back pain is one of the most prevalent musculoskeletal ailments in the United States. Intraosseous radiofrequency ablation of the basivertebral nerve is an effective and durable therapy for low back pain and can be offered to patients who have chronic low back pain of greater than 6 months of duration, failure to respond to noninvasive therapies for 6 months, with either Modic Type I or Type II changes at L3-S1. This article reviews the anatomy and physiology, patient selection, technique, and evidence regarding basivertebral nerve ablation.

Keywords: basivertebral nerve; interventional radiology; nerve ablation; pain management.

Publication types

Review