Percutaneous Radiofrequency Discectomy With Disk IT
CHAPTER 34 Percutaneous Radiofrequency Discectomy With Disk IT Samyadev Datta and Vikram B. Patel INTRODUCTION The low back pain remains a major burden for patients and health care providers. In…
Chemical Neurolysis
CHAPTER 78 Chemical Neurolysis Michael M. Bottros and Michael A. Erdek INDICATIONS Neurolytic techniques have long been used in the treatment of pain. The underlying principle for neurolytic blocks is…
Sacroiliac Joint Injections
CHAPTER 26 Sacroiliac Joint Injections Sheetal Kerkar Patil, Honorio T. Benzon, and Sudhir Diwan OVERVIEW The sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is the largest axial joint in the body with an abundance…
Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Block
CHAPTER 61 Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Block Gerard P. Varlotta and Anya Myers INTRODUCTION The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve (LFCN) is a purely sensory nerve from the lumbar plexus and…
Local Anesthetics
CHAPTER 7 Local Anesthetics Christopher Voscopoulos and Mark J. Lema INTRODUCTION Local anesthetics (LAs) are used in many clinical scenarios that require the pain practitioner to be intimately familiar with…
Viscosupplements and Steroid Injections
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…
Endoscopic Discectomy
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…
Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation: Anatomy, Physiology, and Potential for Therapeutic Targeting in Chronic Pain
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…
Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy
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…
Infection: Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management
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….
