Main description:

This comprehensive review covers the full and latest array of interventional techniques for managing chronic pain. Chapters are grouped by specific treatment modalities that include spinal interventional techniques, nonspinal and peripheral nerve blocks, sympathetic interventional techniques, soft tissue and joint injections, and implantables. Practical step-by-step and evidence-based guidance is given to each approach in order to improve the clinician's understanding. Innovative and timely, Essentials of Interventional Techniques in Managing Chronic Pain is a critical resource for anesthesiologists, neurologists, and rehabilitation and pain physicians.

Contents:

Section I: Basic Considerations

Chapter 1. Evolution of Interventional Techniques

Chapter 2. Chronic Pain: Pathophysiology and Mechanisms

Chapter 3. Pharmacology and Clinical Relevance of Commonly Used Drugs

Chapter 4. Compliance and Documentation for Interventional Techniques

Chapter 5. Sedation for Interventional Techniques

Chapter 6. Antithrombotic and Antiplatelet Therapy

Section II: Spinal Interventional Techniques

Chapter 7. Anatomy of the Spine for the Interventionalist

Chapter 8. Radiology of the Spine for the Interventionalist

Chapter 9. Fluoroscopy in Interventional Pain Management

Chapter 10. Needle Manipulation Techniques

Chapter 11. Lumbar Epidural Injections

Chapter 12. Thoracic Epidural Injections

Chapter 13. Cervical Epidural Injections

Chapter 14. Percutaneous Adhesiolysis

Chapter 15. Discography

Chapter 16. Percutaneous Lumbar

Thermal Annular Procedures

Chapter 17. Lumbar Percutaneous Mechanical Disc Decompression

Chapter 18. Sacroiliac Joint Interventions

Chapter 19. Lumbar Facet Joint Interventions

Chapter 20. Thoracic Facet Joint Interventions

Chapter 21. Cervical Facet Joint Interventions

Chapter 22. Atlanto-Occipital and Atlanto-Axial Joint Injections

Chapter 23. Percutaneous Image-Guided Lumbar Decompression

Chapter 24. Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty, and Sacroplasty

Section III: Nonspinal and Peripheral Nerve Blocks

Chapter 25. Ultrasound Basics

Chapter 26. Trigeminal Nerve Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 27. Occipital Nerve Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 28. Suprascapular Nerve Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 29. Chest Wall Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 30. Abdominal Wall Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 31. Upper Extremity Nerve Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 32. Lower Extremity Nerve Blocks and Neurolysis

Section IV: Sympathetic Interventional Techniques

Chapter 33. Sphenopalatine Ganglion Blocks

Chapter 34. Cervical and Thoracic Sympathetic Blocks

Chapter 35. Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks and Neurolysis

Chapter 36. Hypogastric Plexus Blocks

Chapter 37. Ganglion Impar Blockade

Chapter 38. Celiac Plexus Blocks and Splanchnic Nerve Blocks

Section V: Soft Tissue and Joint Injections

Chapter 39. Trigger Point Injections

Chapter 40. Tendon Insertion, Tendon Sheath, and Bursa Injections

Chapter 41. Botulinum Toxin Injections for Chronic Pain

Chapter 42. Upper Extremity Joint Injections

Chapter 43. Lower Extremity Joint Injections

Section VI: Implantables

Chapter 44. Spinal Cord Stimulation

Chapter 45. Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems

Chapter 46. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation