Table of Contents:

Section I: Basic Principles of Procedures

1 Fundamentals of Procedural Care

2 Commonly Used Medications in Physiatric Procedures

3 Psychological Aspects of Pain

4 Conscious Sedation for Interventional Pain Procedures

5 Radiation Safety for the Physician

6 Complications of Common Selective Spinal Injections: Prevention and Management

7 Implementing a Successful Revenue Cycle in Your Pain Management Practice (Coding)

8 Medicolegal Issues

Section II: Soft Tissue & Joint Injections

9 Upper Extremity Joint Injections

10 Lower Extremity Joint Injections

11 Bursae Injections

12 Tendon Sheath and Insertion Injections

13 Trigger Point Injections

14 Botulinum Toxin Injections in Myofascial Pain Disorders

Section III: Complementary & Alternative Medical Procedures

15 Prolotherapy: A CAM Therapy for Chronic Musculskeletal Pain

16 Percutaneous Neuromoedulation Therapy (PNT)

17 Medical Acupuncture

18 Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine: A Functional Approach to Pain

19 The Treatment of Pain through Chinese Scalp Acupuncture

20 Herbal and Nutritional Supplements for Painful Conditions

21 Body Work and Movement Therapies

22 Mind Body Therapies and PTSD

Section IV: Peripheral Nerve Blocks

23 Basic Principles of Neural Blockade

24 Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks

25 Upper Extremity: Suprascapular Block

26 Sciatic Nerve Block

27 Lower Extremity: Saphenous Nerve Block

28 Lower Extremity: Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Block

29 Genitofemoral Neural Block

30 Ilioinguinal and Iliohypogastric Neural Blockade

31 Intercostal Nerve Block

32 Supraorbital Nerve Block for Supraorbital Neuralgia

33 Head & Facial: Trigeminal Neuralgia

34 Occipital Neuralgia

Section V: Spine

35 Epidural Steroid Injections: Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar: Transforaminal, Interlaminar, and Caudal

36 Zygapophysial Joint Pain: Procedures for Diagnosis and Treatment

37 Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Procedures for Diagnosis and Treatment

38 Discography:

Part A Theoretical Aspects

Part B Intervertebral Disc Access and Stimulation: Lumbar, Thoracic, and Cervical

39 Discogenic Pain, Internal Disc Disruption and Radicular Pain

40 Intradiscal and Peridiscal Therapies for Discogenic and Radicular Pain

41 Spinal Cord Stimulation and Implanted Intrathecal Drug Infusion

42 Sympathetic Neural Blockade

43 Imaging for Chronic Spinal Pain

Section VI: Phuysical Modalities for Pain Management

44 Thermal Applications

45 Cryotherapy

46 Electrical Stimulation

47 Traction

48 Manual Therapy

49 Therapeutic Exercises