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What are the side effects of facet joint injections?

Facet joint injections have very few side effects. Right after the injection, you might have some increased pain from where the needle entered your spine. You might have a headache or experience some flushing from the medications in the injection. You could have an allergic reaction to one of the medications used in the procedure in rare cases.

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* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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