Coccyx pain (coccydynia) apparently occurs far less commonly than lumbosacral pain. Coccydynia can be a severe and persistent pain, causing significant suffering, frustration, and functional ...

Tibiotalar joint injection is a useful therapeutic procedure with inflammation secondary to osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or chronic pain from instability. Pain most often occurs with ankle ...

After informed consent is obtained, the patient is placed in the prone position with the feet extending over the end of the examination table and the foot flexed to about 90 degrees. The location of ...

In one systematic review comparing transforaminal, interlaminar, and caudal ESIs, the authors concluded that there was moderate evidence for long-term (>6 weeks) relief of lumbar radicular pain using ...

Indications Anserine bursa injection is a useful diagnostic and therapeutic procedure in bursitis resulting from [...] ...

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is not really an arthropathy because it spares synovium, articular cartilage, and articular osseous surfaces. It is a fairly common ossification process ...

Injection of the abductor tendon is a useful diagnostic and therapeutic procedure for tendonitis at the insertion of the gluteal musculature into the greater trochanter. After informed consent is ...

Gout is a metabolic disorder that most commonly involves the feet, especially the first metatarsophalangeal joint, as well as the ankles, knees, hands, and elbows in asymmetric fashion. It is produced ...

Previously, arthrography and tenography were the primary means of imaging ankle ligament injuries. They had the limitations of being invasive, providing only an indirect depiction of ankle ligament ...

Sacroiliac joint injection is used to treat inflammation of the sacroiliac joints secondary to trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, degenerative joint disease, or stress secondary to mechanical changes in ...

Spondylolysis is a defect in the pars interarticularis, commonly involving the L5 and occasionally the L4 vertebrae. Most spondylolysis is thought to be produced by repetitive stress. The ...