CHAPTER 51 Viscosupplements and Steroid Injections Jennifer Solomon and Vijay Vad INTRODUCTION Steroids and viscosupplements (VS) are two commonly injected substances used to provide mobility of and relief to osteoarthritic…
CHAPTER 37 Endoscopic Discectomy Sudhir Diwan, Kiran Patel, Kenneth Chapman, and Vikram B. Patel INTRODUCTION Endoscopic discectomy is a minimally invasive treatment for disc herniation, protrusion, or extrusion. The goal…
CHAPTER 73 Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation: Anatomy, Physiology, and Potential for Therapeutic Targeting in Chronic Pain Jeffery Kramer, Christine E. Draper, Timothy R. Deer, Jason E. Pope, Robert Levy, and…
CHAPTER 35 Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy Jason E. Pope and Nagy Mekhail INTRODUCTION Discogenic pain has been implicated as the etiology of low back pain in approximately 45% of patients with…
CHAPTER 9 Infection: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management Dawood Sayed and Sudhir Diwan INTRODUCTION Prevention of infection in patients undergoing interventional procedures remains a top priority of the interventional pain physician….
CHAPTER 17 Trigeminal Ganglion and Nerve Block Miles Day and Kenneth D. Candido INTRODUCTION Blockade of the trigeminal ganglion and/or its peripheral branches is a useful technique that can benefit…
CHAPTER 43 Thoracic (T2-3) Ganglion Block Michael Stanton-Hicks INTRODUCTION The functional separation of the vagi (vagal nerves) and sympathetic trunks can be attributed to Estienne (1544),1 but it was Winslow…
CHAPTER 46 Celiac Plexus Block Using Fluoroscopic Guidance Kenneth D. Candido, Peter S. Staats, Corey W. Hunter, and Sudhir Diwan INDICATIONS The celiac (coeliac) plexus (CP) is a group of…
CHAPTER 16 Cervical Nerve Root Blocks Stanley Golovac INTRODUCTION The use of cervical root blocks can be used both diagnostically and/or therapeutically. In certain conditions, a nerve root block can…
CHAPTER 74 Occipital Nerve Stimulation Erich O. Richter, Marina V. Abramova, and Kenneth M. Alo INTRODUCTION Occipital neuralgia (ON) is a neurological disorder that commonly involves the greater occipital and…
