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Discogenic Low Back Pain

Dr. Fabricio Dias Assis talks about discogenic low-back pain and the conservative treatment he recommends. He first details the anatomy of the disc, including the blood supply and the innervation. Dr. Fabricio Dias Assis also explains how excessive pressures and forces can be deleterious to the disc by decreasing the blood supply and nutrition to the disc.

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He briefly discusses a paper he published in 2009 that reveals positive outcomes of treating discogenic back pain with pulsed radiofrequency on the involved dorsal root ganglion.

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