CHAPTER 94 Lumbar Provocation Discography: Clinical Relevance, Sensitivity, Specificity, and Controversies Michael B. Furman, William A. Ante, Ryan S. Reeves INTRODUCTION Lumbar provocation discography is a commonly used diagnostic procedure…
CHAPTER 60 Surgery for Cervical Radicular Pain Frederick A. Simeone INTRODUCTION Historical notes The first recognized case of cervical radiculitis caused by herniation of the nucleus pulposus was operated on…
CHAPTER 79 Physical Examination of the Lumbar Spine Scott F. Nadler*, INTRODUCTION Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common disorders in the industrialized world1–4 and it is…
CHAPTER 26 IDET Technique Daniel Southern, Gregory E. Lutz INTRODUCTION Intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET) is a recently proposed and investigated treatment for intractable discogenic pain. There is good evidence that…
CHAPTER 97 Surgical Treatment of Axial Back Pain James Zucherman, Vikram Parmar, Ken Hsu, Matthew Hannibal INTRODUCTION Severe axial back pain represents one of the most challenging problems in spine…
CHAPTER 86 Surgical Decompression for Herniated Nucleus Pulposus Rick B. Delamarter, Ben B. Pradhan INTRODUCTION Lumbar herniated nucleus pulposus (HNP) falls within the spectrum of degenerative spinal conditions, and can…
CHAPTER 117 Surgery for Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome Michael R. Moore INTRODUCTION Surgical treatment for sacroiliac pain can be considered when other therapeutic options have failed, and when the patient’s symptoms…
CHAPTER 92 Injection Procedures Rajeev K. Patel, Clifford R. Everett BACKGROUND The natural history of low back pain has been reported to be quite favorable in some studies and is…
CHAPTER 133 Endoscopic Discectomy and Foraminal Decompression Anthony T. Yeung, Christopher Alan Yeung INTRODUCTION Endoscopic disc surgery is evolving rapidly because of improvements in surgical technique, endoscope design, adjunctive surgical…
CHAPTER 51 Cervical Instability W.W. Lu, C.Y. Wen, G.X. Qiu, K.D.K. Luk INTRODUCTION The definition of spinal instability has been a subject of considerable debate for decades, even among experts….
