Functional Anaesthetic Discography™ Procedure

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The proprietary Discyphor™ Catheter allows the physician to isolate the source of lower back pain by selectively anesthetizing suspected disc(s) while the patient performs activities that typically generate pain.

Study Of Disc Anaesthesia For The Preoperative Diagnosis Of Chronic Lower Back Pain - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov

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Originally Posted by Sent via private message:

Dear Discyphor:

Welcome to iSpine. Functional anesthtic discography is very interesting. I know several doctors who have been doing them for years. It's an exciting new concept and I hope it's not just a FAD.

Your 2 posts to date, both about FAD seem quite like marketing. We welcome the data here, but we prefer that it come from participating members of the communiy instead of posters who may hit and run with marketing shots. I hope that you are a new member and will be participating in the community. If you have an insterest in FAD other than as a patient or spine researcher, post about here. As I said, we like the data, but also want transparency.

It is often too difficult or dangerous for anyone involved with a product to post with transparency. If that is the case, we still want the data, but I would ask you to approach me or another prolific poster here and if we think the topic is for the benifit of the community, we'll post it for you.

Again, I hope you'll explain and join the discussion. If there is nothing to explain... accept my apology and still join the community!

All the best,

Mark

Looking for a reply...

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Derby R, Baker R, Wolfer L and Depalma M. Analgesic Discography: Can analgesic testing identify a painful disc? SpineLine. North American Spine Society. 2008 Nov/Dec:17-24.

http://www.spinaldiagnostics.com/sdx...Dec%202008.pdf

[Kathy]

Mark,
Thank you for calling this out to our attention. It looks like you hit the nail on the head, as far as being a solicitor. The user name, is actually a brand name. I went to the profile and there was nothing other than a website link. I followed the link and there was the brand name, which is being used as the user name here. I totally agree with transparency. I'm all about knowledge, but definitely need to consider the source. It's just like when a dr discloses that they have financial intrest in a hospital, a disc, or any other product, facility, or company. That lets us know that there could be a conflict of intrest, we then can decide if we want to take it or leave it.
Thanks for pointing this out,
Kathy

[mmglobal]

Originally Posted by another private message to Discyphor

You have posted again without responding to my prior message. I'll say again... we like the data, but don't like the appearance that your sole purpose here is marketing. All we ask for is transparency. Explain... you can either do it publicly, or confidentially if you'll contact me directly.

Also, please answer my question on your thread about multi-level relief from FAD.

Mark

Question about FAD: If you get a positive response from multi-level FAD, how do you know which discs are responding to the anesthetic? Could be one... could be both...

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Originally Posted by mmglobal

Question about FAD: If you get a positive response from multi-level FAD, how do you know which discs are responding to the anesthetic? Could be one... could be both...

To all readers...I am a medical represenative and am merely providing support for questions regarding product and procedure.

Each level is independently tested. The patient is asked to rate his her pain prior to procedure and at conclusion of catheter placement for a baseline. This pain scale used is the Visual Analog Pain Scale (VAS) or the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS). Patient’s range of motion is also noted or those specific activites that create patient's pain on set (i.e sitting, standing, flexion, "it hurts when i do this"). Patient is then injected with 0.5 - 0.7 cc of anesthetic, and upon anesthetic onset, asked again to rate his or her pain level (and applicable range of motion). Comparison pain scores and range of motion are measured for anesthetic disc improvement and additional valuable information for consideration of treatment options of discogenic back pain. A two point drop or greater in pain score would indicate that the disc level is a pain generator.

To test if the test is still anesthetized most physicians use saline and test range of motion or their pain generating activites.