Cervical Facet joint Medial. branch block and Rhizotomy. If you are reading this, chances are you have chronic neck pain and have responded to a facet joint. injection/s. Before reading this brochure please make sure you have read the brochure on cervical. facet joint injections. Unfortunately, the relief from facet blocks are temporary and often short-. lived.
Usually, only about one in three people show a positive response to such drugs. There are around 100 different types of dementia. However Alzheimer's disease is the most common form, affecting 62% of those living with dementia. Many of these people will have a mixed pattern of dementia with the second most common type-vascular dementia-also contributing to their condition.
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. Dementia usually occurs in older age. It is rare in people under age 60. The risk of dementia increases as a person gets older. Most types of dementia are nonreversible (degenerative). Nonreversible means the changes in the brain that are causing the dementia cannot be stopped or turned back. Alzheimer disease is the most common type of dementia. Another common type of dementia is vascular dementia. It is caused by many small strokes. Lewy body disease is a common cause of dementia in the elderly. People with this condition have abnormal protein structures in certain areas of the brain.