CHAPTER 90 Medical Rehabilitation – Lumbar Axial Pain William Micheo, Carmen E. López-Acevedo INTRODUCTION Axial low back pain is a common complaint of patients visiting physicians who practice musculoskeletal and…
CHAPTER 83 Injection Procedures Jaro Karppinen, Jukka-Pekka Kouri PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF RADICULAR LUMBAR PAIN Lumbar radicular pain, i.e. sciatica, in this context is defined as pain referred from the back into…
CHAPTER 110 History and Principles of Pain Rehabilitation Hubert L. Rosomoff, Renee Steele-Rosomoff, Elsayed Abdel-Moty INTRODUCTION Pain rehabilitation is a specific form of rehabilitation medicine applied to the management of…
CHAPTER 56 Epidemiology of Disc, Joint, and Root Pain in Whiplash Yung Chen, Richard Derby, Byung-Jo Kim INTRODUCTION Nearly 5% of the working population is significantly disabled by neck pain….
CHAPTER 113 Tertiary Rehabilitation Program Outcomes Robert J. Gatchel, Tom G. Mayer Pain is usually broadly defined as either acute, chronic, or recurrent, depending on its time course.1 Acute pain…
CHAPTER 4 Transduction, Transmission and Perception of Pain Sarah M. Rothman, Raymond D. Hubbard, Kathryn E. Lee, Beth A. Winkelstein Painful spinal disorders are common problems in society, affecting an…
CHAPTER 15 The Diagnosis and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Chronic Spinal Pain Carlos F. Tirado, Rollin M. Gallagher INTRODUCTION Patients with chronic painful spine conditions are anxious, and for…
CHAPTER 11 Adjuvant Analgesics for Radicular Pain Sang-Ho Ahn PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC BACKGROUND OF RADICULAR PAIN The pathophysiology of radicular pain remains incompletely understood. It is known that radicular pain is caused…
CHAPTER 93 Radiofrequency Denervation Atul L. Bhat INTRODUCTION Low back pain is ubiquitous to mankind by virtue of our upright posture. Traditionally, it has been believed that most episodes of…
