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PULSE RF FOR CERVICAL SPINE FACET JOINTS |
Several years ago, Dr. Safakish had noticed a relatively large number of patients experience a benign, self-limited, but annoying and interrupting complication after radiofrequency ablation of the sensory nerve of facet joints of the cervical spine. For years, no publication confirmed his suspicion. However, in the last two years, it has been confirmed that 30-40% of people developed this complication. It seems this complication is happening regardless of the practitioner who performed the procedure.
This rate of complication, even benign and self-limited, was not acceptable to Dr. Safakish. Therefore, he started his journey to find the answer. Dr. Safakish explored the idea of using different settings for the radiofrequency machine or perform the procedure with a technique altogether. The answer did not come as one step discovery; rather he gathered information from different doctors in the USA, Canada and European countries.
More than three years ago, Dr. Safakish found the technique that was much safer and probably as effective as a standard radiofrequency (RF) procedure. Since then, he is exclusive uses this technique and the most recent investigation to the patients who had been treated with this technique has shown that it is as useful, if not more effective, than standard RF procedure. The rate of neuropathic pain after this technique is meaningfully lower than the conventional method, considering out of expectation results, that the effectiveness of the new RF procedure was the same or superior to the standard RF technique, another study designed and approved by the Ethics Board. In future research, two groups of patients would be investigated, and the comparison would be as scientific as possible. The clinical team in Allevio Pain Management hopes that the results of the upcoming study could change the practice of pain management over the world, for people with pain as the results of damage to the neck facet joints, like people who had an accident and Whiplash injury as the result.
Last few months, Dr. Safakish had decided to reduce his clinical work and work on more of the research projects. That was the break he was looking for to write down the technique and send it for a well-reputation journal, the journal of Anesthesia & Pain Research. This publication was the second technique that Dr. Safakish has published.
This rate of complication, even benign and self-limited, was not acceptable to Dr. Safakish. Therefore, he started his journey to find the answer. Dr. Safakish explored the idea of using different settings for the radiofrequency machine or perform the procedure with a technique altogether. The answer did not come as one step discovery; rather he gathered information from different doctors in the USA, Canada and European countries.
More than three years ago, Dr. Safakish found the technique that was much safer and probably as effective as a standard radiofrequency (RF) procedure. Since then, he is exclusive uses this technique and the most recent investigation to the patients who had been treated with this technique has shown that it is as useful, if not more effective, than standard RF procedure. The rate of neuropathic pain after this technique is meaningfully lower than the conventional method, considering out of expectation results, that the effectiveness of the new RF procedure was the same or superior to the standard RF technique, another study designed and approved by the Ethics Board. In future research, two groups of patients would be investigated, and the comparison would be as scientific as possible. The clinical team in Allevio Pain Management hopes that the results of the upcoming study could change the practice of pain management over the world, for people with pain as the results of damage to the neck facet joints, like people who had an accident and Whiplash injury as the result.
Last few months, Dr. Safakish had decided to reduce his clinical work and work on more of the research projects. That was the break he was looking for to write down the technique and send it for a well-reputation journal, the journal of Anesthesia & Pain Research. This publication was the second technique that Dr. Safakish has published.