[Book Description]

This book is divided into three sections. The initial 13 chapters present a diverse combination of needle procedures for relief of pain as well as non-needle procedures performed on the rehabilitation patient. Chapters 14-18 discuss the clinical indications and techniques for peripheral nerve blocks, and the final chapters, 19-27, emphasize spinal procedures.


[Contents]

1. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROCEDURAL CARE
2. PERIPHERAL JOINT INJECTIONS
3. TRIGGER POINT INJECTION
4. BURSAL INJECTIONS
5. TENDON SHEATH AND INSERTION INJECTIONS
6. ACUPUNCTURE FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT
7. TECHNIQUE OF PROLOTHERAPY
8. WOUND MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES FOR DECUBITUS AND NEUROPATHIC ULCERS
9. BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTIONS
10. REMOVABLE RIGID DRESSING FOR BELOW-KNEE AMPUTEES
11. SERIAL CASTING
12. PEDIATRIC AND ADULT SWALLOWING VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY
13. UROLOGIC DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
14. BASIC CONCEPTS OF NEURAL BLOCKADE
15. PROXIMAL UPPER EXTREMITY, TRUNK, AND HEAD BLOCKS
16. ARM, FOREARM, AND HAND BLOCKS
17. PROXIMAL LOWER EXTREMITY BLOCKS
18. LEG, FOOT, AND ANKLE BLOCKS
19. LUMBAR AND THORACIC DISCOGRAPHY WITH CT AND MRI CORRELATIONS
20. CERVICAL DISCOGRAPHY WITH CT AND MRI CORRELATIONS
21. SPINAL CORD STIMULATION IN CHRONIC PAIN
22. ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT INJECTION TECHNIQUES IN THE SPINAL AXIS
23. ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL AND LATERAL ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT INJECTIONS
24. FACET JOINT NERVE ABLATION
25. SACROILIAC JOINT INJECTION AND ARTHROGRAPHY WITH IMAGING CORRELATION
26. CERVICOTHORACIC AND LUMBAR SYMPATHETIC BLOCKADE
27. EPIDURAL PROCEDURES IN SPINE PAIN MANAGEMENT

Index