Researchers from the Department of Clinical Medicine receive grant towards research into chronic lower back pain
Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital are receiving DKK 7.3 million from the Danish Health and Medicines Authority’s special pool. The grant will be used for research into the treatment of chronic lower back pain.
Two researchers from the Department of Clinical Medicine and the Department of Neurosurgery, Specialty Registrar Jens Christian Hedemann and Professor, Department Chair Jens Christian Hedemann Sørensen, are getting DKK 7.3 million to conduct research into the treatment of patients with chronic low back pain using the cryoneurolysis method.
Cryoneurolysis treatment involves freezing the small joints in the patient’s lower back. This freezing destroys the small pain fibres which transmit pain signals from the lower back in e.g. a patient suffering from osteoarthritis of the back.
The purpose of the two researchers’ project is to clarify whether there is a therapeutic effect for patients with chronic lower back pain. If the cryoneurolysis treatment demonstrates a beneficial effect, it will in the longer term be possible to treat lower back pain with a minor low-risk procedure and at an affordable price.
Contact
Specialty Registrar Mikkel Mylius Rasmussen
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery
Telephone: (+45) 7846 3469
Email: mikktasm@au.dk