During the morning of the Back Talk spine continuing medical education program, presentation topics will discuss spinal diagnostics and disorders. One talk, entitled The Fundamentals of Spinal Diagnostics, will provide practitioners the latest evidence-based guidelines for assessing patients that complain of neck and back pain. Kevin Macadaeg, MD, a minimally invasive spine specialist with Indiana Spine Group. will present this spinal diagnostic lecture.
During this talk, Dr. Macadeg will discuss the normal spine, and the normal degenerative cascading process of the spine. He will discuss evidence-based guidelines for diagnosing neck and back pain and review recommended spinal diagnostic testing. This review will also include identification of red flags that present as back pain. Additionally, Dr. Macadaeg will discuss the different minimally invasive diagnostic tests and their indications. This discussion will include selective nerve root injects, facet joint injections and discograms.
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