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Volume 4, Issue 6May 1999

FACET JOINTS
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PRACTICE POINTS:

Possible characteristics of facet joint origin of Low Back Pain:

1. WELL-RELIEVED BY RECUMBENCY
2. age >65 years
Not worsened
3. by coughing
4. by (backward) hyperextension
5. by forward flexion
6. when rising from flexion
7. extension-rotation

Facet joints are showing promise as a missing piece of the jigsaw of cervical whiplash as well as Low Back Pain

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