VANCOUVER, Canada – Two presentations at the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine meeting had different perspectives on the efficacy of intradiscal electrothermal therapy for ...

A backache can make it painful to sit, stand, sneeze, open a window, pick up a paper, get in a cab, get out of a cab – in short, it can ruin your life. Just ask any of the 75 million to 80 million ...

Dawn MacFarlane was hit by a car 6 years ago, which damaged a disc in her lower back. She is among 80% of Americans who the American Medical Association says will experience low back pain at some ...

People crippled by back pain could be helped by a new procedure which works by "cooking" discs. The technique, called intra-disc electrotherapy (IDET), heats nerve endings, making them less sensitive ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the Committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...