Asian Pain Academy

Introduction: A New Chapter for Facet Joint Pain Facet-mediated spinal pain remains one of the most discussed—and sometimes most misunderstood—areas of interventional pain medicine. Should every patient with facet arthropathy on MRI receive a facet injection? Should every patient with a positive medial branch block proceed to radiofrequency ablation? Are intra-articular facet injections still relevant? And perhaps most importantly: Is radiofrequency ablation still the preferr

Chronic spinal pain is one of the most prevalent, disabling, and economically burdensome conditions worldwide. At ISSPCON 2026, Dr. Debjyoti Dutta presented a comprehensive and structured lecture on the Evidence-Based Algorithmic Approach to Chronic Spinal Pain , emphasizing that spine care must transition from symptom-driven and image-driven practice to diagnosis-driven, reproducible clinical algorithms. The Evidence-Based Algorithmic Approach to Chronic Spinal Pain offers