Essentials of Interventional Techniques in Managing Chronic Pain

This comprehensive review covers the full and latest array of interventional techniques for managing chronic pain. Chapters are grouped by specific treatment modalities that include spinal interventional techniques, non-spinal and peripheral nerve blocks, sympathetic interventional techniques, soft tissue and joint injections, and implantables.

This second edition features new chapters covering challenges with opioid therapy, impact of COVID-19, and spinal interventional techniques.

Practical step-by-step and evidence-based guidance is given to each approach in order to improve the clinician's understanding. Innovative and timely, Essentials of Interventional Techniques in Managing Chronic Pain is a critical resource for anesthesiologists, neurologists, and rehabilitation and pain physicians.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ASIPP and SIPMS

Medical Director

Pain Management Center of Paducah

Clinical Professor

Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

USA

Vijay Singh, MD

Niagara Health Center

Niagara, WI

USA

Frank J.E. Falco, MD

Dr. Falco is retired from active practice; however, was formerly the Medical Director of Mid Atlantic Spine & Pain Physicians, Newark, DE; Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of PM&R, Temple University Medical School, Philadelphia, PA.

Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD

Dr. Kaye is Professor, Pain Fellowship Director, Provost, Chief AcademicOfficer, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Ochsner Shreveport Hospital and Pain Clinic Feist-Wieller Cancer Center, Shreveport, LA, USA

Amol Soin, MD

Dr. Soin is Medical Director, Ohio Pain Clinic, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA.

Joshua A. Hirsch, MD

Dr. Hirsch is Vice Chair and Service Line Chief of Neurointerventional Radiology, Chief of Neurointerventional Spine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA