This comprehensive review covers the full and latest array of interventional techniques for managing chronic pain. Chapters are grouped by specific treatment modalities that include spinal interventional techniques, nonspinal and peripheral nerve blocks, sympathetic interventional techniques, soft tissue and joint injections, and implantables. Practical step-by-step and evidence-based guidance is given to each approach in order to improve the clinician's understanding. Innovative and timely, Essentials of Interventional Techniques in Managing Chronic Pain is a critical resource for anesthesiologists, neurologists, and rehabilitation and pain physicians.
About the Author: Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP and SIPMS
Medical Director
Pain Management Center of Paducah
Paducah, Kentucky Clinical Professor
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
USA
Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD
Chairman, Program Director, and Professor
Department of AnesthesiaLSU Health Science Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
USA
Frank J.E. Falco, MD
Medical Director
Mid Atlantic Spine and Pain Physicians
Newark, Delaware
Adjunct Associate Professor
Temple University Medical School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
USA
Joshua A. Hirsch, MD
Vice Chief of Interventional Care
Service Line Chief of Interventional Radiology
Director of Interventional Neuroradiology
Chief of NeuroInterventional Spine Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
