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….
Trigeminal Ganglion and Nerve Block
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…
Thoracic (T2-3) Ganglion Block
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…
Celiac Plexus Block Using Fluoroscopic Guidance
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…
