Evidence-based Interventional Pain Practice

Evidence-based Interventional Pain Practice: According to Clinical Diagnoses
Jan Van Zundert (Editor), Jacob Patijn (Editor), Craig Hartrick (Editor), Arno Lataster (Editor), Frank Huygen (Editor), Nagy Mekhail (Editor), Maarten van Kleef (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-67130-6
Hardcover
238 pages
February 2012, Wiley-Blackwell

Unrelieved chronic pain is a worldwide epidemic
Chronic pain has been subject to multiple international initiatives through the World Health Organization. Interventional Pain Medicine, the use of minimally invasive techniques to relieve pain, is the best approach when simpler measures such as physical therapy or medications fail. However, these procedures can be associated with significant risk and expense. Establishing uniformity in diagnostic criteria and procedural performance can reduce both morbidity and unnecessary procedures, and hence healthcare expenditures.
While other texts explain how to perform these procedures, little focus has been given to diagnostic considerations: if and when these procedures should be performed. Evidence-Based Interventional Pain Medicine focuses on a balance between effectiveness and safety of interventional management for specific diagnoses, across all areas of chronic pain including:
Head, neck and shoulder pain
Lower back pain
Neuropathic pain syndromes
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Pain in patients with cancer
Vascular and visceral pain
Evidence-Based Interventional Pain Medicine provides essential knowledge for anyone who uses, or intends to use, interventional pain techniques.

Intoduction, xiii
1 Trigeminal Neuralgia, 1
2 Cluster Headache, 8
3 Persistent Idiopathic Facial Pain, 14
4 Cervical Radicular Pain, 18
5 Cervical Facet Pain, 31
6 Cervicogenic Headache, 40
7 Whiplash-Associated Disorders, 45
8 Occipital Neuralgia, 49
9 Painful Shoulder Complaints, 55
10 Thoracic Pain, 62
11 Lumbosacral Radicular Pain, 71
12 Pain Originating from the Lumbar Facet Joints, 87
13 Sacroiliac Joint Pain, 96
14 Coccygodynia, 103
15 Discogenic Low Back Pain, 107
16 Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, 123
17 Herpes Zoster and Post-Herpetic Neuralgia, 137
18 Painful Diabetic Polyneuropathy, 145
19 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, 151
20 Meralgia Paresthetica, 155
21 Phantom Pain, 160
22 Traumatic Plexus Lesion, 168
23 Pain in Patients with Cancer, 173
24 Chronic Refractory Angina Pectoris, 191
25 Ischemic Pain in the Extremities and Raynaud's Phenomenon, 196
26 Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis, 202
Index, 212