 | | Resnick / Haid Jr.
Surgical Management of Low Back Pain(Distributed by Thieme for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons)
2001
164 pp,
121 illustrations
hardcover
ISBN: 9781879284784 / 9783131360212
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Low back pain is among the four most common problems presented to a physician and is the most common cause of workers' compensation disability claims. The vast majority of patients are successfully managed medically, however a significant number of patients fail medical management and require invasive techniques to manage their pain. In the last two decades, tremendous technological advances have been made with regards to the physician's ability to diagnose and treat low back pain. These technological advances have resulted in the rebirth of older techniques, such as the posterior lumbar interbody fusion, as well as the development of completely new techniques, such as intradiscal electrothermy.
Surgical Management for Low Back Pain is designed to provide an overview of some of the new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities as well as an anatomic and physiologic rationale for their application. Chapters on the pathophysiology of low back pain and the biomechanical rationale or common treatments for low back pain are juxtaposed with chapters detailing advances in MR imagine and discography.
Also covered in Surgical Management for Low Back Pain:
- Indications for and limitations of facet injections
- Intradiscal electrothermy
- Spinal cord stimulation techniques
- Surgical indications, technique and complication avoidance and management strategies for instrumented and non instrumented posterolateral fusion
- Surgical indications, technique and complication avoidance and management strategies for anterior and posterior interbody fusion
- Surgical indications, technique and complication avoidance and management strategies for tranforaminal interbody fusion
- Patient selection criteria and management algorithms for the patient with failed back surgery syndrome
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