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.
There are more than 60 medical, psychiatric and neurologic conditions associated with dementia. Not long ago, it was believed that 20-40 percent of dementias were potentially reversible. Now recent studies suggest that most dementias, while manageable, remain irreversible, while less than 5 percent are reversible. The following summary should help to differentiate between these two groups.