More than six months have passed since Ebola was first identified in West Africa, and the scale of the crisis continues to grow.
Remember, they are there only to send pain signals, and without them, you will not feel any numbness or weakness in any muscles. The goal of RF facet denervation is to provide long-term pain relief. Studies have shown 50 percent of patients experience relief lasting up to two years. Eventually, the nerves regenerate and your pain may return, at which point the RF denervation procedure can be repeated.
In between the intervals of high voltage current, the heat is able to disperse and the targeted tissue remains lower than 42Â°C. Therefore, the degree of tissue damage that is accomplished with continuous radiofrequency ablation procedures is not achieved with the pulsed procedure.