In general, intradiscal electrothermal therapy is a minimal invasive technique that shows significant promise for treatment of low-back pain coming from internal disc disruption or discogenic etiology, after receiving failed conservative treatments. It is a procedure which carries minimal risk if performed appropriately and suggests that half of the patients will notice significant improvement of back pain. The results are not as encouraging as they were with the initial studies, but this procedure is suggested to be performed on carefully selected patients who have primarily back pain and have undergone testing including discography and have not lost more than 80% of the disc height.