Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures for Pain

In the last decade, a significant paradigm shift has occurred in the way complex spinal disorders are treated. Historically, after patients failed conservative treatments-largely consisting of therapy, medications, and injections-they would be left with only highly invasive open surgical options. Now, with the development of minimally invasive surgical techniques, patients often have significantly more effective and safer treatment options available. Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures for Pain looks at the minimally invasive approaches that can be done percutaneously and under image guidance, instead of the traditional open approaches under direct visualization. The book discusses the basic concepts of spinal surgical approaches combined with an in-depth approach to the various techniques, with the overall goals of enhancing physician knowledge and leading to improved patient outcomes and safety. Topics include decompressive procedures, spinal implants, vertebral autmentation procedures, sacroiliac joint therapies, neuromodulation procedures, and more. The topics covered in the book are important to interventionalists, as well as physicians from traditional surgical backgrounds like neurosurgery and orthopedics. A first of its kind, this text details a balanced look at the proper surgical techniques for pain, as well as best practices.

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for the Interventional Pain Physician

1. The Interventionalist’s Perspective

2. A Surgeon’s Perspective

3. Surgical Instruments

4. Perioperative Considerations

5. Spinal Diagnostics for Interventional Pain and Surgery

Part 2 Decompressive Procedures

6. Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression

7. Endoscopic Discectomy

8. Uniportal, Percutaneous Microdiscectomy with Annulo-nucleoplasty

Part 3 Spinal Implants

9. Indirect Lumbar Decompression

10. Minimally Invasive Posterior Lumbar Fusion—A New Approach to a Standard Procedure

Part 4 Vertebral Augmentation Procedures

11. Vertebroplasty

12. Vertebral Augmentation

13. Vertebral Augmentation with Osteotome

14. Spinal Tumor Ablation

15. Basivertebral Nerve Ablation

Part 5 Sacroiliac Joint Therapies

16. Sacroiliac Joint Fusion—Posterior Approach

17. Sacroiliac Joint Fusion—Lateral Approach

Part 6 Neuromodulation Procedures

18. Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial

19. Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulator Implantation (Cervical/Lumbar)

20. Peripheral Nerve Stimulator Implantation

21. Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation

22. Intrathecal Drug Delivery

Index