Table 2:
Reasons for discrepancy between facet joint activity and treatment
| Reason | Patient Group |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Lumbar (n = 41) | Cervical (n = 11) | Overall (n = 52) | |
| Not documented (%) | 18 (44) | 3 (27) | 21 (40) |
| Active facet joint not concordant with clinical findings (%) | 13 (32) | 5 (45) | 18 (35) |
| Consideration of response (or lack of) to prior targeted treatment (%) | 6 (15) | 3 (27) | 9 (17) |
| Relatively low reported activity (%) | 2 (5) | 0 (0) | 2 (4) |
| Too many active facet joints to inject (%) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Information from other imaging (%) | 2 (5) | 0 (0) | 2 (4) |