Why carry out this study?

Chronic neck pain has clinical manifestations of pain in the head, neck, shoulder and upper limbs as well as pain associated with numbness

Neck pain seriously affects physical and mental health as well as quality of life of patients and increases health care costs

The purpose of this study was to evaluate pain relief and the occurrence of complications of CT-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) targeting the edge of herniation of the cervical disc to destroy the sinuvertebral nerves for the treatment of cervical pain

What was learned from the study?

This study highlights that CT-guided RFA targeting the edge of cervical disc herniation to destroy the sinuvertebral nerves can effectively relieve neck pain

The overactivation of sinuvertebral nerves is one of the mechanisms of neck pain caused by herniated cervical disc. RFA of sinuvertebral nerves has shown efficacy for the treatment of discogenic low back pain