1 Management of chronic, intractable, non-terminal pain that are not responsive to other modalities; 2  Treatment of cancer pain in those patients who have short life expectancy (less than a year); and.  Alternative management to treat spasticity in order to improve balance, gait, self-care, and global rehabilitation.
Diagnosing modic changes. 1  In Modic type 1 there is vascular development in the vertebral body, with findings of inflammation and edema, but no trabecular damage or marrow changes. 2  In Modic type 2 there are changes in bone marrow, with fatty replacement of formerly red, cellular marrow normally seen there.
Modic type endplate changes represent a classification for vertebral body end-plate MRI signal, first described in 1988 1. It is widely recognised by radiologists and clinicians and is a useful shorthand for reporting MRIs of the spine.