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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
