CHAPTER 10 Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs Gurkirpal Singh INTRODUCTION The effective management of acute postoperative pain is important for both humanitarian and psychological reasons. Despite the advances in analgesic agents and…
CHAPTER 8 Electrodiagnostic Approach to Patients with Suspected Radiculopathy Timothy R. Dillingham INTRODUCTION Cervical and lumbosacral radiculopathies are conditions involving a pathological process affecting the spinal nerve root. Commonly, this…
CHAPTER 16 Principles of Diagnostic Blocks Nikolai Bogduk A critical property of any diagnostic test is that it must be valid. If a test is not valid, the information that…
CHAPTER 34 Medical Radiculopathies Andrew J. Haig Sciatica – This is often associated with rheumatism and gout, but is also frequently brought on by catching cold. Occasionally it is due…
CHAPTER 17 Neurophysiology of Diagnostic Injections Christopher W. Huston, Curtis W. Slipman INTRODUCTION In the patient presenting with symptoms in a classic dermatomal pattern and a corroborative imaging study, the…
CHAPTER 3 Inflammatory Basis of Spinal Pain James D. Kang, Stephen Hanks INTRODUCTION Low back pain with or without radiculopathy continues to be a significant clinical entity causing major disability…
CHAPTER 7 Nuclear Medicine Imaging With an Emphasis on Spinal Infections Christophe Van de Wiele INTRODUCTION Nuclear medicine imaging assesses pathophysiologic processes such as regional perfusion, permeability, accumulation of white…
CHAPTER 2 Epidemiology David A. Lenrow INTRODUCTION Epidemiology is the branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.1 Epidemiology of…
CHAPTER 1 Past, Present, and Future of Interventional Physiatry Richard Materson THE PAST One might inquire what a history and philosophical chapter is doing in an evidence-based clinical textbook. Interventional…
