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Just reading another thread and I got the impression (perhaps wrongly) that many people do not bend the tip of needles when doing a transforaminal injection. I have ALWAYS done that and was taught to do so at the very start in order to ease guidance of the needle and avoid the "Singer sewing machine" effect of withdrawing and reinserting needles to change direction.
I have usually used a 25 gauge blunt tipped needle and put a bend in it. I have never had a kink of the needle ever. When we used to do discograms, I did find that if one bent the 18 gauge introducer needle, that it was sometimes hard to get the long 22 bent needle through it. But rarely did one bend the introducer.
Am I in the minority in using bent tipped needles (I put the bend in myself- just the tip)? To each his own, but I would certainly find it hard to guide needles into tight areas without a bend, but that is the way I have always done them.
Bend or no bend?
I have usually used a 25 gauge blunt tipped needle and put a bend in it. I have never had a kink of the needle ever. When we used to do discograms, I did find that if one bent the 18 gauge introducer needle, that it was sometimes hard to get the long 22 bent needle through it. But rarely did one bend the introducer.
Am I in the minority in using bent tipped needles (I put the bend in myself- just the tip)? To each his own, but I would certainly find it hard to guide needles into tight areas without a bend, but that is the way I have always done them.
Bend or no bend?