Important Safety Information (Physician)Diagnosis in Motion™
Imagine a procedure that obtains diagnostic information through your patient's typical daily activities. Day to day, your patient's pain is not provoked by needles, but instead is elicited by sitting down, bending for the newspaper, or lifting a child.
The DISCYPHOR DIRECT™ Catheter System for the Functional Anaesthetic Discography™ (F.A.D.™) Procedure helps you diagnose discogenic pain by evaluating your patient's response to anesthetic injections into suspected intervertebral discs while performing their typical pain-eliciting activities.
The DISCYPHOR DIRECT™ Catheter System enables you to obtain more information by independently assessing discs to determine the source of a patient's low back pain. This additional information may help in selecting the optimal treatment options for your patient.
The ability to investigate the relationship between discogenic disorders and symptomatic back pain is of critical importance prior to any spinal therapy. In order to select appropriate treatment, more information is needed than what is currently provided by traditional discography.1,2,3 It is time for a new approach to the diagnostic process, time to go beyond sedentary assessment and evolve the process of diagnosing discogenic pain.
1 Carragee EJ et al. Reliability of Subjective Concordance Assessment During Provocative Disc Injection. SPINE. 1999 Dec 1;24(23):2542-7.
2 Madan S et al. Does Provocative Discography Screening of Discogenic Back Pain Improve Surgical Outcome? Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques. 2002;15(3):245-251.
3 Carragee EJ et al. A Gold Standard Evaluation of the "Discogenic Pain" Diagnosis as Determined by Provocative Discography. SPINE. 2006;31(18):2115-2123.