Interventions in chronic pain management. 6. Interventional approaches to chronic pain management.
This self-directed learning module highlights strategies for interventional treatments for chronic pain disorders. It is part of the chapter on chronic pain in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Specifically, the first module reviews an interventional protocol for recalcitrant buttock and hip pain. The protocol includes hip and spinal injections, neuroablative lesioning, and percutaneous epidural neuroplasty. The second module reviews implantable treatments (spinal cord stimulation, implantable pumps) for intractable pain.


OBJECTIVE
To discuss interventional pain management approaches in the treatment of chronic pain disorders.
Overton
E Anthony
EA
Rothman Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. dr_overton@hotmail.com
Kornbluth
Ira D
ID
Saulino
Michael F
MF
Holding
Michele Y
MY
Freedman
Mitchell K
MK
D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D015918:Infusion Pumps, Implantable; D007267:Injections; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000700:Analgesics