Do you offer low-dose radiation therapy for osteoarthritis of the spine?

DEGRO has published guidelines on this very topic, so I would respectfully disagree with a comment arguing a lack of data. Of course, if one is looking for level 1 data on irradiating benign diseases in general, there may be little to satisfy.

That being said, there's no level 1 data espousing the be...

No, we don’t currently offer LDRT for spine OA, because the clinical data is sparse in this situation.

I've done this routinely with excellent results, with similar response rates to other joints. There was concern in the past with leukemia due to RT, but having reviewed the literature, this was based on delivering a large open field for patients with ankylosing spondylitis to a dose of 20 Gy in 5 fx...