Back pain is a relatively common condition of our time. Pain, sometimes debilitating, considerably affects the quality of life of millions of people around the world. Faced with this phenomenon, researchers have developed a minimally invasive treatment that would make it possible to lasting treatment for back pain. It involves injecting an allograft of disc tissue into the spine.
Trials have shown that this intervention helped to significantly reduce pain in the back. The allograft also helped improve back function for a prolonged period in patients with degenerative disc disease.
This new therapy will be described during the meeting Annual Scientific Society of Interventional Radiology in Phoenix.
The treatments used to treat back pain remain ineffective
The degenerative disc disease is the leading cause of chronic low back pain. It occurs when the discs that cushion the vertebrae in the spine begin to wear down. When back pain becomes debilitating, it is possible to proceed with a interventional radiology.
This treatment effectively relieves pain, but its effects wear off after only three years. Douglas Beall, chief of radiology at Clinical Radiology of Oklahoma, said current treatments for chronic low back pain are often ineffective or their effects are short-lived.
A lasting cure for lower back pain?
The new treatment, called viable disc allograft supplementation, involves injecting specialized cells and fluid into a patient’s damaged disc. Tested on people with chronic low back pain, this allograft injection proved to be very effective to relieve their back pain.
Allograft therapy can help patients return to a normal level of activity for a long period. Therefore, its use would contribute to reducing the consumption of opioid analgesics by patients. In addition, its administration is relatively easy. He it is requires no incision and patients can go home the same day of the procedure.
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