Interventional Spine Procedures A Case-Based Approach

Interventional spine medicine involves the management of back pain through invasive treatments such as facet joint injections, nerve blocks, neuroaugmentation and implantable drug delivery systems.

Presented with a case-based approach, this manual provides practitioners and trainees with the most recent advances in interventional spine procedures. Divided into eighteen chapters, each one deals with a different type of back pain, detailing the typical pain pattern, patient history, physical examination, imaging and interpretation, and treatment options and potential complications. Non-surgical treatment options including pharmacology, physical therapy and injections are discussed in depth.

Written by internationally recognised experts from the Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, this practical book includes nearly 80 images and illustrations.

Key points

• Provides recent advances in interventional spine procedures
• Presented in case-based approach
• Offers non-surgical treatment options
• Internationally recognised author team from Rothman Institute, Philadelphia

1. Basic Principles of Fluoroscopically-Guided Procedures
2. Lumbar Disc Herniation with Radiculopathy: Selective Spinal Nerve Injection
3. Lumbar Disc Herniation with Radiculopathy: Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection
4. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Radiculopathy
5. Coccygodynia
6. Lumbar Facet Syndrome
7. Sacroiliac Joint Pain
8. Cervical Disc Herniation with Radiculopathy
9. Cervical Disc Herniation without Radiculopathy
10. Cervical Facet Syndrome
11. Hip Pain
12. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome—Lower Extremity
13. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome—Upper Limb
14. Dural Puncture Headache
15. Adverse Reactions to Medications
16. Discogenic Low Back Pain/Lumbar Disc Herniation without Radiculopathy
17. Thoracic Facet Pain
18. Thoracic Disc Herniation

Jeremy Simon MD

Mitchell Freedman DO

Michael J Mehnert MD

Alexander R Vaccaro MD PhD

All at the Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA