Radiofrequency ablation and the young back pain patient
I remember my early years in interventional physiatry with a clarity that only comes from repetition. A young patient, often in their twenties or thirties, would walk in with a single, unremarkable complaint: axial low back pain, non-radiating. The exam told a consistent story: pain reproduced with extension and rotation, no radicular findings, and no neurological deficits. Imaging was equally quiet: maybe a mildly bulging disc, some early facet hypertrophy, …
Radiofrequency ablation and the young back pain patient
