By integrating patient history, clinical examination, and imaging findings. CT-guided injections: Provide effective treatment for certain types of back pain, increase specificity in back pain diagnosis, and enhance precision and safety in spine interventions.
UCSF Radiologist Dr Dillon: Understanding how CT Scanners can help pin point other causes of lower back pain for a more precise diagnosis.
CT allows opportunity to visualize other causes of pain at time of injection. Integration of history, physical examination and imaging is a very powerful tool. Doctors would see the patient, examine the patient, scan the patient, and sometimes even put BB on where the patient’s pain.
UCSF Radiologist Dr. Dillon goes over a list of important issues to keep in mind when performing a spinal injection. He also shares a couple non-UCSF cases where these considerations were ignored.
UCSF Radiologist Dr Dillon describes the use of CT-image guided injections not only allow for precise positioning at the time of the injections but also for more effective injections at harder to reach places.
Outcomes of this technique and one study SNRB/ESI Outcomes Results
