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Neurosurgical Pain Management
By Kenneth A. Follett, MD, PhD
Approx. 304 pages, Over 120 ills, Copyright 2004

Description
Written exclusively from a neurosurgical perspective, this title is a concise and practical resource, yet covers a large information base from Myofascial Pain Syndromes to Peripheral Ablative Techniques. Organized into four sections: Fundamental Considerations in Pain Treatment, Pain Syndromes of Neurosurgical Importance, Neurosurgical Pain Therapies, and Miscellaneous Topics (which includes Physical Medicine and Rehabilitaion, Disability and Impairment in the Patient, and more).

With 40 additional contributing experts

Key Features

Offers a multidisciplinary perspective with contributions from neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, and pain specialists.
Compares and contrasts treatment approaches to highlight their relative advantages, disadvantages, and indications.
Includes chapters on a multidisciplinary treatment program and how to build (and survive) a neurosurgical pain practice.

Table of Contents
1. Approach to the Patient with Pain: Seres
2. The Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Basis of Pain
3. The Pathophysiology of Neuropathic Pain
4. Psychological Considerations in Spine Surgery
5. Pharmacological Therapies for Pain
6. Myofascial Pain Syndromes
7. Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
8. Non-Trigeminal Craniofacial Pain Syndromes
9: Treatment of Occipital Neuralgia and Related Posterior Headache Syndromes
10. Trigeminal, Geniculate, and Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
11. Central and Deafferentation Pain Syndromes
12. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
13. Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
14: Peripheral Nerve Stiumation
15. Neuraxial Analgesic Administration
16. Intracranial Stiumation Therapies: Deep Brain Stimulation
17. Motor Cortex Stiumation for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Syndromes
18. Cordotomy
19. Spinal Ablative Therapies: Myelotomy
20. Dorsal Root Entry Zone Lesions
21. Brainstem Ablative Procedures
22. Intracranial Ablative Procedures
23. Peripheral Ablative Techniques
24. Trigeminal Neuralgia-Peripheral Neurectomy
25. Percutaneous Trigeminal Nerve Compression
26. Percutaneous Trigeminal Neuralgia Glycerol Rhizotomy
27. Trigeminal Neuralgia-Percutaneous RF Rhizotomy
28. Posterior Fossa Procedures for Cranial Neuralgias
29. Radiosurgery for Pain Management
30. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Pain Management
31. The Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment Program
32. Building (and Surviving) a Neurosurgical Pain Practice
33. Disability and Impairment in the Pain Patient
34. Outcome Assessment