Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Including Applications of Neural Blockade Andreas Binder Ralf Baron The term complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) describes a variety of painful conditions following injury that appears…
Percutaneous Neural Destructive Techniques David Niv Michael Gofeld History The idea of relieving intractable pain by severing a nerve as if it were a rope connecting an injured part with…
Acute Pain Management and Acute Pain Services Pamela E. Macintyre David A. Scott The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain in general as “an unpleasant sensory…
Neurostimulation Joshua P. Prager Michael Stanton-Hicks For more than 30 years, interventional pain specialists have used spinal cord stimulation (SCS) to treat a variety of pain syndromes. Unlike neuroablation, SCS…
Spinal Route of Analgesia: Opioids and Future Options for Spinal Analgesic Chemotherapy Daniel B. Carr Michael J. Cousins Ignored until the late 19th century as a target for anesthesia, and…
Sympathetic Neural Blockade of Upper and Lower Extremity Harald Breivik Michael J. Cousins The effects of sympathetic nerves in maintaining normal constrictor tone in the blood vessels of the skin…
Diagnostic and Prognostic Neural Blockade Quinn H. Hogan Stephen E. Abram The use of neural blockade to establish the diagnosis or prognosis of painful conditions is motivated by several compelling…
Psychological Aspects of Pain: Implications for Neural Blockade Joel Katz Ronald Melzack Pain is a personal, subjective experience influenced by cultural learning, the meaning of the situation, attention, and other…
Assessment and Diagnosis of Chronic Pain Conditions Christopher Vije Michael A. Ashburn The patient with chronic pain comes to the physician with the hope that he can help her find…
The Placebo Response: Implications for Neural Blockade Damien G. Finniss Fabrizio Benedetti The placebo response has been a topic of interest for over 200 years and, in recent times, has…
