BOOKS

1. Manchikanti L, Slipman C, Fellows B (eds).  Interventional Pain Management:  Low Back Pain: Diagnosis and Treatment, ASIPP Publishing, Paducah , KY 2002.

PART I. BASIC CONSIDERATIONS

1.       Epidemiology of Low Back Pain
2.       Risk Factors of Low Back Pain
3.       Clinical Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine
4.       Pathophysiology of the Disc 
5.       Fluoroscopic Anatomy of the Lumbar Spine
6.       Structural Basis of Chronic Low Back Pain
7.       Psychological Aspects of Chronic Low Back Pain
8.       Analgesic Pharmacology 
9.       Neuraxial Steroids 

PART II. NON-INTERVENTIONAL ASSESSMENT

10.     Evaluation and Management Services: A Regulatory Perspective 
11.     Psychological Screening in Low Back Pain 
12.     Imaging of the Lumbar Spine 
13.     Electrodiagnostic Approach to Low Back Pain 
14.     Impairment Evaluation of Patients with Low Back Pain

PART III. INTERVENTIONAL ASSESSMENT

15.     Diagnostic Interventions of the Lumbosacral Spine 
16.     Diagnostic Lumbar Facet Joint Injections 
17.     Lumbar Discography 
18.     Diagnostic Lumbosacral Transforaminal Epidural Injections 
19.     Diagnostic Sacroiliac Joint Injections 

PART IV. INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT

20.     Caudal Epidural Use of Steroids 
21.     Interlaminar Epidural Use of Steroids 
22.     Transforaminal Epidural Use of Steroids 
23.     Lumbar Epidural Adhesiolysis 
24.     Lumbar Endoscopic Adhesiolysis 
25.     Discogenic Pain and Intradiscal Therapies
26.     Evolution of Percutaneous discectomy 
27.     Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy with Laser and Radiofrequency Discoplasty 
28.     Therapeutic Lumbar Intraarticular Facet Joint Injections 
29.     Therapeutic Lumbar Facet Joint Nerve Blocks 
30.     Lumbosacral Facet Joint Radiofrequency 
31.     Cryoanalgesia in Low Back Pain 
32.     Trigger Point Injections 
33.     Spinal Cord Stimulation in Chronic Low Back Pain 
34.     Intrathecal Drug Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain 
35.     Regenerative Injection Therapy 
36.     Radiation Safety in Interventional Pain Management 

V. SUMMARY

37.     Chronic Low Back Pain of Facet Joint Origin 
38.     Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome 
39.     Rethinking Fibromyalgia: An Interventionalist’s Approach 
40.     An Algorithmic Approach to Diagnosis and Management of Low Back Pain
41.     Informed Consent in Spine Research
42.     Outcomes and Cost Effectiveness of Interventional Techniques