Management Strategies in Chronic Lumbar Facet Joint Syndrome - A Review of Literature

Citation: Rajesh MB, Chamma R, Ranganathan A (2019) Management Strategies in Chronic Lumbar Facet Joint Syndrome A Review of Literature. J Musculoskelet Disord Treat 5:068. doi.org/10.23937/25723243.1510068 Accepted: August 24, 2019: Published: August 26, 2019 Copyright: © 2019 Rajesh MB, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. persists for ≥ 3 months. These acute episodes develop into chronic low back pain (persists more than 3 months) in 8-12% of patients [3]. 85% are non-specific low back pain not attributable to a specific pathology (fracture, infection, osteoporosis, tumour) [4].