Free practice question: Nerves to block for lower lumbar facets
Question 4 of 25 in the free Starter set. Single best answer, three options, like the real exam.
C4 · Musculoskeletal pain
A 59-year-old woman has chronic axial low back pain without radicular features. Pain worsens with lumbar extension and rotation, and MRI shows facet arthropathy at L4–L5 and L5–S1. Diagnostic medial branch blocks are planned to test both of these facet joints on each side. Which nerves should be anesthetized on each side?
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