This book offers step-by-step guidance on a range of procedures, including trigeminal branches nerve block, cervical epidural steroid injection, botox injection, and acupuncture. It features suggestions for minimizing risk as well as clinical photos.

First book on interventional management of head and face pain

Edited and written by world class authorities

Full range of procedures, from nerve blocks for head and face pain to peripheral and central neuromodulation

Practical, step-by-step guidance for performing each procedure

Autorentext

Samer N Narouze, MD, MSc, DABPM, FIPP

Chairman, Center for Pain Medicine

Summa Western Reserve Hospital

Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA

Klappentext

First book on interventional management of head and face pain Edited and written by world class authorities Full range of procedures, from nerve blocks for head and face pain to peripheral and central neuromodulation Practical, step-by-step guidance for performing each procedure

Zusammenfassung

First book on interventional management of head and face pain

Edited and written by world class authorities

Full range of procedures, from nerve blocks for head and face pain to peripheral and central neuromodulation

Practical, step-by-step guidance for performing each procedure

Inhalt

Section I. Indications for Interventional management.- 1. Headache Classifications and Medically Resistant Headaches.- 2. Algorithms for the diagnosis and management of head and face pain.- Section II. Nerve Blocks for head and face pain.- 3. Peripheral nerve block for the management of headache and face pain.- 4. Occipital nerve blocks.- Section III. Cervicogenic Headache.- 5. Occipital neuralgia: The role of ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment.- 6. Glossopharyngeal nerve block.- 7. Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.- 8. Trigeminal Gasserian Ganglion, Maxillary Nerve and Mandibular Nerve blocks.- 9. Interventional treatment for Trigeminal neuralgia: radiofrequency and neuromodulation.- 10. Practical Approach to Cervicogenic Headache.- 11. Atlanto-Axial Joint: Atlanto-Axial Joint Injection and Radiofrequency Ablation.- 12. Third Occipital Nerve Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.- 13. Cervical facet syndrome: cervial medical branch block and radiofrequency ablation .- Section IV. Other Common interventions for headaches.- 14. Intravenous therapy for intractable headaches.- 15. Botulinium toxin injection and headaches.- 16. Epidural blood patch.- Section V. Neuromodulation for head and face pain.- 17. Occipital nerve stimulation for head pain : Surgical leads.- 18. Occipital nerve stimulation for head pain : Percutaneous leads.- 19. Sphenopalatine Ganglion Stimulation.- 20. Deep brain and motor cortex stimulation for head and face pain.