Canadian Spine Intervention Guideline
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Intervention procedures for spinal pain are commonly performed in Canada. However, up to now, there is no national guideline specifically developed for Canadian providers. A few years ago, a collaborative effort was established with the support of National Pain Centre of McMaster University and Canadian Pain Society. The taskforce involved multiple committees as follows:
Steering committee: oversaw the process of formulating the guidelines.
Evidence synthesis committee: prepared, searched, analysed and synthesized the evidence for the spine procedures and related topics.
Guideline Panel: consisted of clinical experts, researchers, healthcare regulators, administrators and funders, methodologists with expertise in clinical epidemiology They voted on the guideline recommendations based on the level of evidence.
Multidisciplinary clinical expert committee: consisted of clinical experts in Pain Medicine who had an in-depth understanding of the role of interventional procedures for spinal and radicular pain. They voted on specific domains of good clinical practice related to spine interventions that did not have sufficient evidence to be addressed by the Guideline Evidence Synthesis Committee.
The Patient Partner Committee: comprised of seven individuals with lived experience of pain. These partners helped the Steering Committee by identifying procedures for relieving spinal and procedural pain that were a priority, and in reviewing the recommendations approved by the Guideline and Multidisciplinary Clinical Expert Committee.
The documents were then sent to two international experts who are clinical experts in spine intervention and also have lot of experience in guideline synthesis.
The documents are now in the final stage and we would like to have feedback from the public through this consultation process. Please click the following links below to go through the documents. If you have feedback, please reach out to painguidelines@outlook.com. The public consultation will end on Sunday, February 1st, 2026.