Diagnosis Management and Treatment of Discogenic Pain:Volume 3: A Volume in the Interventional and Neuromodulatory Techniques for Pain Management Se

Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Discogenic Pain - a volume in the new Interventional and Neuromodulatory
Techniques for Pain Management series - presents state-of-the-art guidance on the full range of discogenic pain relief
techniques performed today. Leonardo Kapural, MD and Philip Kim, MD offer expert advice on a variety of procedures to
manage and treat discogenic pain. Comprehensive, evidence-based coverage on selecting and performing these techniques -
as well as weighing relative risks and complications - helps you ensure optimum outcomes. With online access to the
fully searchable text and procedural videos at www.expertconsult.com, you'll have the detailed visual assistance you
need right at your fingertips.

Key Features
Understand the rationale and scientific evidence behind discogenic pain relief techniques and master their execution.

Optimize outcomes, reduce complications, and minimize risks by adhering to current, evidence-based practice guidelines
for treating discogenic pain, when to recommend interventional procedures, how to perform them safely, and how to
manage chronic back pain in the long term.


Apply the newest techniques in discography, radiofrequency and heat procedures, disc fusion, nucleus replacement, and
interventions for disc herniation.


See how it's done through step-by-step procedural videos on Expert Consult .


Quickly find the information you need in a user-friendly format with strictly templated chapters supplemented with
illustrative line drawings, images, and treatment algorithms.


Access the fully searchable contents and bonus full-length videos of lumbar discography, biacuplasty, and MILD
procedures at expertconsult.com.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Epidemiology and Etiology of Discogenic Pain: How Big is the Problem?

Chapter 2: Establishing the Diagnosis of Discogenic Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Algorithmic Approach


Chapter 3: Imaging for Discogenic Pain


Chapter 4: Provocation Discography



Chapter 5: Analgesic Discography

Chapter 6: Discogenic Pain: Intradiscal Therapeutic Injections and Use of Intradiscal Biologic Agents


Chapter 7: Radiofrequency and Other Heat Applications for the Treatment of Discogenic Pain


Chapter 8: Arthrodesis and Fusion for the Treatment of Discogenic Neck and Back Pain: Evidence Based Effectiveness and
Controversies


Chapter 9: Nucleus Pulposus Replacement and Motion Sparing Technologies


Chapter 10: Cervical & Thoracic Discogenic Pain: Therapeutic Non-surgical Options


Chapter 11: Disc Herniations: Injections and Minimally Invasive Techniques

Chapter 12: Current Surgical Options for Intervertebral Disc Herniation in the Cervical and Lumbar Spine


Chapter 13: Neuromodulation and Intrathecal Therapies for the Treatment Chronic

Radiculopathy Related with Intractable Discogenic Pain