Deer's Treatment of Pain. An Illustrated Guide for Practitioners

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

1. The Disease-Based Treatment of Pain
Andrew So and Karina Gritsenko

2. Algorithms of Pain Treatment
Andrew So and Karina Gritsenko

3. The Opioid Epidemic and the Need for a Pain Strategy
Tory L. McJunkin, Paul J. Lynch, and Edward L. Swing

PART 2: ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PAIN

4. Nerve Function and Neurons
Tony George and Didier Demesmin

5. Peripheral Nerve Anatomy
Daniel Rothstein and Didier Demesmin

6. Spinal Cord Anatomy
Alan Gonzalez Cota

7. Anatomy of the Brain and Brainstem
Mark N. Malinowski

8. Mediators of Pain and Pain Processing
Mark N. Malinowski

9. Taxonomy of Pain
Nicholas J. Bremer

10. Pain Relieving Mechanisms in Neuromodulation
Vikram Sengupta, Sascha Qian, Ned Urbiztondo, and Nameer Haider

PART 3: PSYCHOLOGY OF PAIN

11. The Normal Response to Pain
Randall P. Brewer

12. Pain and Suffering
Marilyn S. Jacobs

13. Social Impact of Pain Response
Alan Gonzalez Cota

14. Role of Religion and Spirituality in the Patient Pain Experience
Amy Wachholtz and Christina E. Fitch

15. Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Chronic Pain
Shamard Charles, Alexios Carayannopoulos, and Sanket Pathak

16. Psychological Treatments to Improve Outcomes
Marilyn S. Jacobs

17. Psychological Evaluation for Those Receiving Devices for the Treatment Of Pain
Ioannis M. Skaribas and Kevin Smith

PART 4: PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF PAIN

18. Acetaminophen and Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
Rishi Raj Agarwal, Rishi Gaiha, and Geeta Nagpal

19. Anticonvulsants in the Treatment of Pain
Clarence T. Li and James C. Watson

20. Botulinum Toxin
Kris Ferguson and Nicole Wolfgram

21. Sodium Channel Antagonists
Katherine D. Travnicek

22. Anti-Spasmodics and Muscle Relaxants
Katherine D. Travnicek

23. Antidepressants in Pain Management
Kris Ferguson and Nicole Wolfgram

24. Ketamine and NMDA-Receptor Antagonists
Mihir M. Kamdar

25. Novel Analgesics
Vitaly Gordin, Daniel Morgan, Michael Mueller, Alba Guevara, and Yuri Gordin

26. Injectable Corticosteroids
Devang Padalia, Neal Shah, Jaspreet Singh, Navdeep Jassal, Corey Reeves, and Randall Brewer

27. Topical Therapies
Devang Padalia, Neal Shah, Jaspreet Singh, Samia Malik, Osama Hafez, and Randall Brewer

28. Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
Jason Edward Pope and Timothy R. Deer

29. Opioids for Cancer Pain and Hospice Care
Thomas P. Pittelkow and Halena M. Gazelka
30. Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics of Pain Treatment
Piotr K Janicki

PART 5: INTERVENTIONAL TREATMENT OF PAIN

31. Radiation Safety
Chong H. Kim, Torin Walters, and Vikram Patel

32. Radiofrequency Ablation
Chase A. Kissling, David A. Provenzano, Steven P. Cohen, and Eric Lee

33. Basic Science of Radiofrequency
Tiffany Lin, Simon Willis, Dost Khan, and Maunak V. Rana

34. Cryotherapy
Maged Guirguis, Ian Hakkinen, Yamah Amiri, Jose Posas, and Chong Kim

35. Chemodenervation: Neurolytic Blockade and Potent Neurotoxins for the Treatment of Cancer Pain
Puneet Sayal, Michael S. Leong, and David Copenhaver

36. Blockade of the Nerves of the Head and Face
Narayan R. Kissoon

37. Ganglion Blocks of Head and Face
Reda Tolba and Tyler Nix

38. Destructive procedures of the Head and Face
Xiang Qian and Anuj Aggarwal

39. Interlaminar Approach for Cervical Epidural Steroid Injection
Sanket Pathak and Andrew Ng

40. Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Injections
Anish Sethiand and Dajie Wang

41. Diagnostic Cervical Nerve Root Blocks
Kiran K Koneti and Ashish Gulve

42. Cervical Facet Joint Injection and Medial Branch Blocks
Ajax Yang, Jonathan Hagedorn, Sameer Jain, and Jay M. Shah

43. Cervical Facet Radiofrequency Neurotomy
Jay M. Shah, Jonathan Hagedorn, Ajax Yang and Sameer Jain

44. Intercostal Nerve Block
Reda Tolba and Alexander Fontenot

45. Intercostal Nerve Block
Reda Tolba, MD and Alexander Fontenot, MD

46. Thoracic Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection
Christian Peccora

47. Thoracic Facet and Medial Branch Blocks
Rebecca A. Sanders

48. Radiofrequency Ablation in the Thoracic Spine
Eric Lee and Chane Price

49. Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injection
Ioannis M. Skaribas, Jennifer L. Erian, Dustin Reynolds, and Elena E. Skaribas

50. Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Corticosteroid Injections
Nicholas J. Bremer and Mark N. Malinowski

51. Lumbar Facet and Medial Branch Block
Sameer Jain, Jonathan Hagedorn, Jay M. Shah, and Ajax Yang

52. Sacroiliac Joint Injection
Ioannis M. Skaribas, Bryan K. Lai, Eric V. Ngo, and Elena E. Skaribas

53. Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency
Susan Lim and Christopher Gilligan

54. Sacroiliac Joint Fusion
Edna Gouveia, Daniel R Denis, Taylor Brittan, Joshua Hanna, and Maged Guirguis

55. Caudal Epidural Injection
Atul A. Walia, Hiep Tran, and Dan DuBose

56. Stellate Ganglion Block
Ioannis M. Skaribas, Aanchal Sharma, and Elena E. Skaribas

57. Lumbar Sympathetic Block
Sascha Qian, Vikram Sengupta, Ned Urbiztondo, and Nameer Haider

58. Celiac Plexus Block and Superior Hypogastric Plexus Block
Dawood Sayed, Patrick Grace, and Brian Wetherington

59. Ganglion Impar Block
Markus A. Bendel

60. Large Joint Injections
Yasmine Hoydonckx and Philip Peng

PART 6: NEUROMODULATION

61. Deep Brain Stimulation
James Dierkes, Julie G. Pilitsis, and Steven Falowski

62. Motor Cortex Stimulation
Kurt A. Yaeger and Brian Harris Kopell

63. Occipital Nerve Stimulation
Lucas W. Campos

64. Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block
Mark N. Malinowski and Nicholas J. Bremer

65. Percutaneous Cervical Spinal Cord Stimulation
Jeffery Rowe and Dawood Sayed

66. Surgical Leads for the Cervical Spine
Roger Strachan and Sam Eldabe

67. Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation-Cervical Spine
G Baranidharan, Corey W Hunter, and Jason Pope

68. Percutaneous Thoracic Neurostimulation for Chronic Pain
Tory L. McJunkin, Paul J. Lynch, and Edward L. Swing

69. Surgical Lead for the Thoracic Spine
Geoffrey Stricsek and Steven Falowski

70. Percutaneous Lumbar Stimulation
Lucas W. Campos and Eric T. Lee

71. Thoracic and Lumbar Dorsal Root Ganglion Spinal Stimulation
Denis G. Patterson, Pankaj Mehta, Javed Baksh, Mathew Roberts, Maged Guirguis, Corey Hunter, Jason E. Pope, Jeffrey Rowe, Dawood Sayed, and Jonathan Carlson,

72. Percutaneous Sacral Nerve Stimulation
Corey W Hunter and Dipan Patel

73. Sacral Dorsal Root Ganglion Spinal Stimulation
Jeffery Rowe, Timothy Deer, Pankaj Mehta, Jason Pope, Denis Patterson, Javid Baksh, and Maged Guirguis

74. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Pankaj Mehta

75. Stimulation Methods and Device Choices: Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation, Spinal Cord Stimulation, and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Seth Christian, Vafi Salmasi,and Michael S. Leong

76. Patient Selection
Sean Li

77. Wound Closure and Surgical Healing
Stephen Coleman, Vafi Salmasi, and Michael S. Leong

78. Complications of Neuromodulation
Tim Lamer

PART 7: NEUROAXIAL THERAPIES

79. Intrathecal Pharmacology
Lucas W. Campos

80. Patient Selection
Lucas W. Campos

81. Intrathecal Device Considerations
Chong H. Kim

82. Intrathecal Agents and Algorithms: Review of PACC 2012 and 2017 Guidelines and Beyond
Michael S. Leong, Lynn Ngai, and William A. Stuart

83. Implantable Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Pain and End Of Life Care
Ann Cai Shah, Kenneth Ike, Lisa Stearns, and Lawrence Poree

84. Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
Ankit Maheshwari and Elias Veizi

85. IDDS For Movement Disorders
Sadie E. Smith and Bunty J. Shah

86. Ziconitide for Intrathecal Use
Corey W. Hunter and Dipan Patel

PART 8: REGENERATIVE THERAPIES FOR CHRONIC PAIN

87. Scientific Bases of PRP Therapy
Corey W Hunter and Ajax Yang

88. Scientific Basis for Stem Cell Therapy
Luke Law, Christy Hunt, and Wenchun Qu

89. Stem Cells
Ajax Yang, Corey W Hunter, Tory McJunkin, Paul Lynch, and Edward Swing

90. Regenerative Therapies for Chronic Intradiscal Pain
Christy Hunt, Luke Law, and Wenchun Qu

91. PRP Therapies (Tendons, Joints, Spine)
Ajax Yang, Corey W Hunter, and Tory McJunkin

PART 9: INTRADISCAL AND MINIMALLY INVASIVE STRUCTURAL SURGERIES

92. Discography
Bunty J. Shah

93. Endoscopic Discectomy
Jonathan D. Carlson, Abram H. Burgher, and Gabriel P. Jasper

94. Vertebral Augmentation for Painful Vertebral Compression Fractures
Tory L. McJunkin, Paul J. Lynch, and Edward L. Swing

95. Vertebroplasty and other methods of vertebral augmentation
Julian Maingard, Nicole S Carter, Hamed Asadi, Lee-Anne Slater, Thabele Leslie-Mazwi, Joshua A Hirsch, and Ronil V. Chandra

96. Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression
Sean Li

97. Interspinous Process Spacers for Indirect Lumbar Decompression
Jonathan Carlson, W. Porter McRoberts, and Jeffrey Rowe

PART 10. REHABILITATION AND ADJUVANT THERAPIES FOR PAIN

98. Physical Therapy
Shamard Charles, Alexios Carayannopoulos, and Amanda Markow

99. Acupuncture
Tony Y. Chon

PART 11. ADMINISTRATIVE CONSIDERATIONS

100. Cybersecurity of Medical Devices: Past, Present, and Future
Nameer Haider, Christopher Gates, Vikram Sengupta, and Sascha Qian

101. Coding and Billing
Tina Rivenbark and Jeffrey Peterson

102. Medicare Payment Quality Measures
Mehul J Desai and Michael Leon

Designed and written by a team of clinically established academics, this is a unique book that is an excellent manual for physicians practicing pain medicine or treating pain in neurosurgery, orthopedic, neurology, or family practice clinics. As a practical resource, this book is written to be more accessible to the reader and is designed to be more clinically-focused and useful in day-to-day practice. This 102 chapter volume is divided into seven separate sections: Anatomy and Physiology of Pain, Psychology of Pain, Pharmacological Treatment of Pain, Interventional Treatment of Pain, Adjuvant Therapies for Pain and Suggested Reading. The calculated organization of this book is supplemented by key photos, drawings and a self-assessment of four key questions at the end of each chapter ------ thus making it an indispensable, pragmatic resource that will benefit anyone working in the pain management field. Deer's Treatment of Pain: An Illustrated Guide for Practitioners contains pearls for improving knowledge and improving one's practice as a physician.