Interventional Pain Management

Foreword, John D. Loeser, Laxmaiah Manchikanti, and Menno E. Sluijter SECTION I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. Imaging Techniques, Leland Lou and P. Prithvi Raj 2. Drugs Used in Interventional Techniques, James E. Heavner 3. Thermal and Pulsed Radiofrequency, Jan Van Zundert, Menno Sluijter, and Maarten van Kleef 4. Principles and Mechanisms of Cryoneurolysis, Leland Lou 5. Basic Risk Management for Interventional Procedures, Ken Braxton SECTION II. HEAD AND NECK 6. Somatic Blocks of the Head and Neck, Serdar Erdine, Gabor B. Racz, and Carl E. Noe 7. Sympathetic Blocks of the Head and Neck, Serdar Erdine 8. Spinal Neuroaxial Procedures of the Head and Neck, Michael Hammer, Carl E. Noe, Gabor B. Racz, Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, and Carmen Pichot 9. Joint Blocks of the Head and Neck, Michael Hammer, Carl E. Noe, and Gabor B. Racz 10. Myofascial Blocks of the Head and Neck, Leland Lou and P. Prithvi Raj SECTION III. THORAX 11. Somatic Blocks of the Thorax, Steven D. Waldman 12. Sympathetic Blocks of the Thorax, Serdar Erdine and Gul Koknel Talu 13. Spinal Neuroaxial Procedures of the Thorax, Rcardo Ruiz-Lopez, Carmen Pichot and P. Prithvi Raj 14. Joint Blocks of the Thorax, John W. Nelson SECTION IV. LUMBAR REGION 15. Lumbar Somatic Blocks, Steven D. Waldman 16. Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks, David Niv and Michael Gofeld 17. Lumbar Spinal Neuroaxial Procedures, Milton H. Landers, Rodney L. Jones, Richard M. Rosenthal, and Richard Derby 18. Lumbar Joint Blocks, Aaron K. Calodney 19. Lumbar Myofascial Blocks, Lee Ann Paradise, P. Prithvi Raj, and Jason Robert Fryer SECTION V. PELVIS 20. Pelvic Somatic Blocks, Steven D. Waldman 21. Pelvic Sympathetic Blocks, Serdar Erdine and Suleyman Ozyalcin 22. Pelvic Spinal Neuroaxial Procedures, Gabor B. Racz and Carl E. Noe 23. Sacroiliac Joint Blocks, Lee Ann Paradise and P. Prithvi Raj SECTION VI. Extremities 24. Somatic Blocks of the Upper Extremity, Lee Ann Paradise, Jason Robert Fryer, and P. Prithvi Raj 25. Joint Blocks of the Upper