Thoracic Pain Syndromes
CHAPTER 74 Thoracic Pain Syndromes Donal F. Harney, Maarten van Kleef Thoracic pain accounts for approximately 5% of all referrals to the authors’ pain clinic in a University Hospital in…
Cervical Discography: Diagnostic Value and Complications
CHAPTER 67 Cervical Discography: Diagnostic Value and Complications Richard Derby, Renée Melfi, Gul Talu, Charles Aprill INTRODUCTION Diagnostic procedures can confirm specific diagnoses. Establishing a correct diagnosis should allow prediction…
Cervical Spine
CHAPTER 66 Cervical Spine Sara Haspeslagh, Jan Van Zundert, Maarten Van Kleef CERVICAL ZYGOAPOPHYSEAL PAIN Clinical syndrome Patients with cervical zygapophyseal (facet) joint pain present commonly with a dull and…
Sympathetic System
CHAPTER 65 Sympathetic System Sara Haspeslagh, Maarten Van Kleef STELLATE GANGLION BLOCK Clinical syndrome ‘Sympathetically maintained pain’ is defined as ‘pain that is maintained by sympathetic efferent innervation or by…
An Algorithmic Methodology for Cervical Axial Neck Pain
CHAPTER 62 An Algorithmic Methodology for Cervical Axial Neck Pain David W. Chow, Curtis W. Slipman INTRODUCTION Fluoroscopically guided cervical injection procedures are commonly used for the nonsurgical management of…
Medical Causes of Neck Pain
CHAPTER 47 Medical Causes of Neck Pain Paul Cooke, Alvin Antony, Ramnik Singh INTRODUCTION Neck pain is a frequent complaint to doctors in Western societies.1 Valkenburg et al.2 demonstrated in…
Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs
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…
Electrodiagnostic Approach to Patients with Suspected Radiculopathy
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…
Principles of Diagnostic Blocks
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…
Medical Radiculopathies
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…
