Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nerve Blocks Michele Curatolo Nikolai Bogduk Local anesthetic blocks are procedures in which a local anesthetic agent is deliberately injected onto a peripheral nerve in order to…

Pain Management in the Emergency Department James R. Miner The specialties of both emergency medicine and pain medicine are relatively new members of the modern house of medicine. The first…

The Surgical Management of Trigeminal Neuralgia Matthew K. Mian Sarah K. Bick Pratik A. Talati Emad N. Eskandar Trigeminal neuralgia (TN), formerly known as tic douloureux, is a chronic pain…

Surgery of the Peripheral Nervous System as a Treatment for Pain James Michael Mossner Parag G. Patil In this chapter, we consider ablative and decompressive surgical approaches to pain that…

Pain Rehabilitation Steven P. Stanos Wilson J. Chang “Rehabilitation is a continuous process.”1 Rehabilitation may be described as a “return to ability … the return to the fullest physical, mental,…

Deep Brain and Motor Cortex Stimulation Jimmy Chen Yang Athar N. Malik Emad N. Eskandar Deep brain stimulation (DBS) and motor cortex stimulation (MCS) have both been used as invasive…

Intrathecal Drug Delivery in the Management of Pain Edgar Ross David Arcella During the past 25 to 30 years, implantable drug delivery devices designed for long-term continuous infusion of medications…

Basic Concepts in Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Maureen Young Shin Noh Benjamin C. Soydan Anand B. Joshi Clinical pain training has historically focused on the following categories: type, location (usually…

Ablative Neurosurgical Procedures for Chronic Pain Benjamin L. Grannan Muhamed Hadzipasic Emad N. Eskandar Consideration of an ablative procedure for chronic pain typically follows numerous evaluations for other therapeutic options…