The Ability of Lumbar Medial Branch Blocks to Anesthetize the Zygapophysial Joint

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1991 • 693 citations

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1976 • 595 citations

Clinical Features of Patients with Pain Stemming from the Lumbar Zygapophysial Joints

1994 • 578 citations

The Tissue Origin of Low Back Pain and Sciatica:

1991 • 537 citations

Prevalence and clinical features of lumbar zygapophysial joint pain: a study in an Australian population with chronic low back pain.

1995 • 451 citations

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1994 • 425 citations

The false-positive rate of uncontrolled diagnostic blocks of the lumbar zygapophysial joints

1994 • 388 citations

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1982 • 386 citations

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1956 • 331 citations

The Ability of Computed Tomography to Identify a Painful Zygapophysial Joint in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

1995 • 297 citations

Induced Pain Referral from Posterior Lumbar Elements in Normal Subjects

1979 • 289 citations

Specificity of Lumbar Medial Branch and L5 Dorsal Ramus Blocks

1997 • 276 citations

1988 Volvo Award in Clinical Sciences: Facet Joint Injection in Low-Back Pain

1988 • 260 citations

Low back pain and the zygapophysial (facet) joints

1996 • 199 citations

Radiofrequency lumbar facet denervation: analysis of prognostic factors

1994 • 198 citations

Lumbar facet joint injection: indication, technique, clinical correlation, and preliminary results.

1982 • 182 citations

Apophyseal Injection of Local Anesthetic as a Diagnostic Aid in Primary Low-Back Pain Syndromes

1981 • 172 citations

Distribution of pain provoked from lumbar facet joints and related structures during diagnostic spinal infiltration

1989 • 157 citations

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1995 • 149 citations

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1992 • 127 citations

Arthrography of the lumbar facet joints.

1981 • 118 citations

Pain from the lumbar zygapophysial joints: a test of two models.

1994 • 112 citations

Lumbar facet joint injection in low back pain and sciatica: preliminary results.

1980 • 110 citations

Acta Morphologica Neerlando- Scandinavica

1987 • 103 citations

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1992 • 97 citations

The morphology of the lumbar synovial interveertebral joints.

1962 • 83 citations

Lumbar Percutaneous Facet Rhizotomy

1990 • 73 citations

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1994 • 72 citations

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1983 • 70 citations

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1974 • 69 citations

Innervation of the zygapophyseal joints of the lumbar spine

1983 • 28 citations