Deer's Treatment of Pain

Branch Blocks.-Radiofrequency Ablation in the Thoracic Spine.-Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injection.-Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Corticosteroid Injections.-Lumbar Facet and Medial Branch Block.-Sacroiliac Joint Injection .-Sacroiliac Joint Radiofrequency.-Sacroiliac Joint Fusion.-Caudal Epidural Injection.-Stellate Ganglion Block.-Lumbar Sympathetic Block.-Celiac Plexus Block and Superior Hypogastric Plexus Block.-Ganglion Impar Block.-Large Joint Injections.-PART 6:  NEUROMODULATION.- Deep Brain Stimulation.-Motor Cortex Stimulation.-Occipital Nerve Stimulation.-Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block.-Percutaneous Cervical Spinal Cord Stimulation.-Surgical Leads for the Cervical Spine.-Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation-Cervical Spine.-Percutaneous Thoracic Neurostimulation for Chronic Pain.-Surgical Lead for the Thoracic Spine.-Percutaneous Lumbar Stimulation.-Thoracic and Lumbar Dorsal Root Ganglion Spinal Stimulation.-Percutaneous Sacral Nerve Stimulation.-Sacral Dorsal Root Ganglion Spinal Stimulation.-Peripheral Nerve Stimulation.-Stimulation Methods and Device Choices: Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation, Spinal Cord Stimulation, and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation.-Patient Selection.-Wound Closure and Surgical Healing.-Complications of Neuromodulation.- PART 7:  NEUROAXIAL THERAPIES.-Intrathecal Pharmacology.-Patient Selection.- Intrathecal Device Considerations.-Intrathecal Agents and Algorithms: Review of PACC 2012 and 2017 Guidelines and Beyond.-Implantable Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Pain and End Of Life Care.-Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.-IDDS For Movement Disorders.-Ziconitide for Intrathecal Use.-PART 8:  REGENERATIVE THERAPIES FOR CHRONIC PAIN.-Scientific Bases of PRP Therapy.-Scientific Basis for Stem Cell Therapy.-Stem Cells.-Regenerative Therapies for Chronic Intradiscal Pain.-PRP Therapies (Tendons, Joints, Spine) .-PART 9: INTRADISCAL AND MINIMALLY INVASIVE STRUCTURAL SURGERIES.-Discography.-Endoscopic Discectomy.-Vertebral Augmentation for Painful Vertebral Compression Fractures.-Vertebroplasty and other methods of vertebral augmentation.-Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression.-Interspinous Process Spacers for Indirect Lumbar Decompression.-PART 10. REHABILITATION AND ADJUVANT THERAPIES FOR PAIN.-Physical Therapy.-Acupuncture.-PART 11. ADMINISTRATIVE CONSIDERATIONS.-Cybersecurity of Medical Devices:  Past, Present, and Future.- Coding and Billing.-Medicare Payment Quality Measures.-

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Fellow's Advocacy Grant. He served as a member of the West Virginia Pharmacy Board Advisory Panel of Controlled Substances and Opioid Prescribing and is Secretary of the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (CASIPP). Dr. Pope has also helped foster the educational efforts of NANS, and has helped formalized the Resident and Fellow Section (RFS) of NANS, functioning as Co-Chair, and helped create a mentorship program for fellows. He helped develop the NANS Certificate of Attendance (COA) training opportunity to promote safe and efficacious employment of advanced pain care therapies. Dr. Pope is on the Planning Committee and the Scientific Committee for the NANS annual meeting and served as Co-Chair of the Resident and Fellows Section Pre-Conference Workshop, with the development of the first annual RFS Breakout Session during the Conference. Dr. Pope is the co-Chair of the inaugural Neuromodulation Special Interest Group (SIG) for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA). He is also well published in peer-reviewed journals, authored many chapters, textbooks and atlases, while presenting at regional, national, and international meetings.
Timothy Lamer, MD is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic whose research interests include: interventional therapies for intractable post-surgical neuralgias/neuropathic pain syndromes, Radiofrequency therapies for spine pain and head and neck pain, Spinal stimulation and/or nerve stimulation for chronic neuropathic pain, and Prolotherapy for sacroiliac joint pain.
David Provenzano, MD is the President of Pain Diagnostics and Interventional Care. He has served as a principal investigator on multiple research studies and published numerous scientific articles. His research interests include neuromodulation and thee