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Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

A Comprehensive Guide

  • 1st Edition - September 3, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Andrea Trescot
  • Language: English

At last—a single, convenient reference on this interventional pain management technique, covering all recent advances in this fast-changing field. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: A… Read more

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At last—a single, convenient reference on this interventional pain management technique, covering all recent advances in this fast-changing field. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation: A Comprehensive Guide is a one-stop resource offering practical guidance on performing a wide array of pain-relieving procedures using office-based ultrasound-guided techniques, fluoroscopy, and more. Concise and user-friendly, this easy-to-use guide helps physicians deliver safe, accurate, and cost-effective care by demonstrating how to evaluate the causes of pain, identify the most promising stimulation technique, locate the site with precision, and provide effective pain relief.

Key features

  • Offers clear guidance on peripheral nerve stimulation procedures for patients with chronic pain, incorporating all clinically useful imaging modalities.

  • Illustrates the anatomical targets for each procedure and the appropriate placement of wireless micro devices.

  • Presents information in an easy-to-follow, consistent format: anatomy; diagnosis by history, exam, imaging, and diagnostic block; indications for PNS; contraindications for PNS; and techniques.

  • Provides superb visual guidance with clinically relevant anatomic drawings, color line drawings, clinical photographs, and ultrasound images.

  • Discusses the risks and benefits of each procedure, highlights potential pitfalls, and offers clinical pearls on how to avoid them.

  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Readership

Pain Medicine practitioners and trainees (anesthesiologists, neurologists, physical medicine and rehab, orthopods, rheumatologists)

Table of contents

1 History of peripheral nerve stimulation for pain

2 Peripheral nerve entrapments

3 Mechanism of action of peripheral nerve stimulation

4 Ultrasound versus fluoroscopy

5 Surgical tools for peripheral nerve stimulation

6 Surgical techniques for peripheral nerve stimulation

7 Peripheral nerve stimulation education and psychological evaluation

8 Occipital nerve stimulation

9 Trigeminal nerve peripheral nerve stimulation

10 The sphenopalatine ganglion: associated illnesses and therapeutic modalities

11 Axillary and suprascapular nerves

12 Brachial plexus

13 Ulnar nerve

14 Median nerve

15 Radial nerve

16 Intercostal nerves

17 Ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve

18 Genitofemoral nerve

19 Superior cluneal nerves

20 Middle cluneal nerves

21 Inferior cluneal nerve

22 Pudendal peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic pelvic pain

23 Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve

24 Femoral nerve

25 Sciatic nerve

26 Genicular peripheral nerve stimulation

27 Peroneal nerves (fibular nerves)

28 Saphenous nerve

29 Posterior tibial nerve

30 Sural nerve

31 Superior gluteal nerve

32 Craniofacial stimulation and headache

33 Peripheral nerve stimulation for complex regional pain syndrome

34 Postherpetic neuralgia

35 Approach to low back pain and peripheral nerve stimulation

36 Peripheral nerve stimulation for chronic pelvic pain

37 Postamputation pain

38 Peripheral neuropathy

39 Overactive bladder

40 Gastric stimulation for gastroparesis

41 Motor stimulation

42 Vagal nerve stimulation
Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 28, 2022
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Alaa Abd-Elsayed

Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed joined the faculty of the Anesthesiology Department at the University of Wisconsin in 2014 to provide Chronic Pain Medicine Services as part of the Interventional Pain Program. He received his medical training at Assiut University Medical School in Egypt, completed a master’s degree in Public Health, research fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, and residency in anesthesiology and pain management fellowship at University of Cincinnati. As part of the Interventional Pain Program, Dr. Abd-Elsayed evaluates patients at the Pain Clinic, and when an interventional pain treatment is appropriate, performs procedures at the Madison Surgery Center. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous research grants, published more than 70 peer-reviewed manuscripts and authored several editorials and book chapters. He has presented at more than 60 international and national conferences and has earned more than 15 awards at the state and national levels. In addition, he has served as a reviewer for more than 20 journals and as an editor to several journals.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Wisconsin, USA

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Andrea Trescot

Dr. Trescot brings over 30 years of clinical and training experience to pain management. Dr. Trescot is the past chair of the Education Committee and a current examiner for the World Institute of Pain (WIP) that administers the Fellow in Pain Practice (FIPP) exam to clinicians worldwide. She is the past president of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) and a former professor and director of pain fellowship programs at the University of Washington and the University of Florida. Dr. Trescot is also a member of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Pain Management Best Practices Interagency Task Force
Affiliations and expertise
The Pain and Headache Center, Eagle River, Alaska, USA

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