Spine Pain Care, 1st ed. 2020
A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

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Language: English

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This multi-faceted book provides readers with comprehensive guidance to spine pain care. Unique in structure, the contents integrate various specialties involved in spine pain care, thereby bringing in new prospective and expanding readership. 

This six part reference begins with a review on the epidemiology and economic impacts that present clinical and financial challenges for spine pain care. Part two then brings the reader into a review of the anatomy, pathophysiology, and etiology of spine pain. Subsequent parts then dive into clinical evaluation tactics, unique disease conditions and treatment options. Finally, the book closes with two chapters discussing the challenges of spine pain medicine and the potential future directions of the field.  

Written by experts in their respective fields, Spine Pain Care - A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a first-of-its-kind, barrier breaking work designed for allprofessionals involved in spine pain care, including physicians and nurses, as well as medical students, residents and fellows as a supplementary educational material.  

Part I. Epidemiology and Economic Impact.- Chapter 1. Spine Pain Care: Clinical Challenges and Unmet Research Needs.- Chapter 2. The Epidemiology and Economic Impact of Spine Pain.- Chapter 3. Current and Emerging Payment Models for Spine Pain Care: Evidence-Based, Outcomes-Based, or Both? .- Part II. Anatomy, Pathophysiology, and Etiology.- Chapter 4. Functional Anatomy of the Human Spine.- Chapter 5. Pathophysiology of Spinal Pain.- Chapter 6. Clinical and Research Tools for Pain Assessment.- Part III. Clinical Evaluation.- Chapter 7. History and Physical Examination.-  Chapter 8. Radiological Evaluation of the Lumbar Spine.- Chapter 9. Neurological Exam and Neurophysiologic Evaluation for the Pain Patient.- Chapter 10. Psychological and Psychiatric Evaluation of the Spine Pain Patient: An Interface of the Mind/Body Dynamic.- Part IV. Spine Pain Conditions.- Chapter 11. Spinal Stenosis.- Chapter 12. Disk Herniation and Radiculopathy.- Chapter 13. Degenerative Spine Joint Disease.- Chapter 14. Degenerative Disk Disease.- Chapter 15. Cervicogenic Headache.- Chapter 16. Infectious and Autoimmune Disease and Spine Pain.- Chapter 17. Oncology and Spine Pain.- Chapter 18. Pediatric Spine Pain.- Part V. Treatment of Spine Pain.- Chapter 19. Opioid and Non-Opioid Therapy.- Chapter 20. Surgical Interventions for Spine Pain Management.- Chapter 21. Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures for Spine Pain Management.- Chapter 22. Epidural Steroid Injections.- Chapter 23. Nerve Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.- Chapter 24. Neuromodulation for Spine Pain Care.- Chapter 25. Intrathecal Drug Delivery.-  Chapter 26. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty.- Chapter 27. Fluoroscopic Images of Spinal Procedures and Radiation Safety.-  Chapter 29. Sympathetic Neural Blockade and Trigger Point Injections.- Chapter 30. Miscellaneous Spine Procedures: Nucleoplasty, Intradiscal Electrothermal therapy .- Chapter 31. Complications of Interventional Therapy forthe Management of Low Back Pain.- Chapter 32. Regional Anesthesia in Patients with Spine Pain.- Chapter 33. Radiation Therapy for Oncologic Spine Pain.- Chapter 34. Rehabilitation Approaches to Spine Care: Physical therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Aquatic Therapy.- Chapter 35. Psychological Assessment and Behavioral Management of Spine Pain.- Chapter 36. Integrative Medicine.- Chapter 37. Organizational and Nursing Issues Related to Spine Pain Care.-  Part VI. Challenges and Future Directions.- Chapter 38. Basic Research for Pain.- Chapter 39. Chronic Low Back Pain: Improving Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment.  

Jianren Mao, MD, PhD
Richard J. Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
USA  

Provides comprehensive and multi-faceted information on spine pain care for clinical practice and basic science/clinical research Promotes the concept that spine pain care requires a multi/inter-disciplinary and multi-specialty approach Well-illustrated and authored by experts in their respective fields