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Old 08-27-2013, 01:04 PM
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Default Spinal Probing - diagnostic technique

Hi
Has anyone ever heard of the use of a diagnostic technique called spinal probing?
I have struggled for years to get a definitive diagnosis for my continued pain and disability following a split 2 level ADR procedure in 2003 (L5/S1 and L3/4) and was wondering if this might be a useful procedure in my case. The procedure is carried out in an aware state under light sedation and I believe is commonly used as an intraoperative diagnostic tool during some MISS procedures..
Details of the procedure can be found at the following links;
Spinal Probing
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Spinal Probing & Discography - Spinal Foundation

This would be pretty pricey so would need to be sure it's at least got a fair chance of identifying my pain generators before proceeding..

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Old 08-31-2013, 05:01 PM
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Tim, nice to hear from you again. It's been a while. I have not seen this technique... when I have a chance to, I'll read some of the info you linked to and we can chat.

All the best

Mark
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Old 09-01-2013, 08:26 PM
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Default Simple probing

Probing is what they do prior to doing an ablation, it's actually finding the nerves which are causing the pain and it's a simple probe put down through a thin needle. They give you local anaesthetic prior to this and that you can't drive home but it's no big deal and we can get it on our state system in the UK
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