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To the Editor: With regard to the article by Lord et al. on percutaneous radio-frequency neurotomy for chronic cervical zygapophyseal-joint pain (Dec. 5 issue),¹ one of the principles of treatment after musculoskeletal injury is to protect the injured area and prevent the patient from assuming postures and performing movements that continue to aggravate the injury. This may be especially difficult with a neck injury. Much of the pain experienced by the subjects in this study before the surgery probably served no useful purpose and caused unnecessary suffering. Yet some of the pain may have warned or prompted them to avoid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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