Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for cervical spine (facet) joint pain from a multispecialty international working group
Hurley RW, Adams MCB, Barad M, Bhaskar A, Bhatia A, Chadwick A, Deer TR, Hah J, Hooten WM, Kissoon NR, Lee DW, Mccormick Z, Moon JY, Narouze S, Provenzano DA, Schneider BJ, van Eerd M, Van Zundert J, Wallace MS, Wilson SM, Zhao Z, Cohen SP. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2021 Nov 11:rapm-2021-103031. doi: 10.1136/rapm-2021-103031. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34764220.
“The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and the American Academy of Pain Medicine approved and charged the Cervical Joint Working Group to develop pragmatic neck pain guidelines that can be used to inform clinical care, improve the quality of research, and assist payers with clinical practice pathways and authorization decisions. The group invited 18 stakeholder organizations to participate in developing these guidelines. The authors addressed 20 questions.