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

Low back pain remains one of the most common reasons for physician visits worldwide and represents a major socioeconomic burden. With the rapid expansion of interventional pain techniques, clinicians are increasingly confronted with procedures promoted through social media, marketing platforms, and industry-driven narratives. This makes it essential for pain physicians to critically evaluate evidence based interventions in back pain before incorporating them into routine cli