Interventional Approaches for Pain - The Pain Care for Primary Care Course

Explore interventional approaches for pain management in this comprehensive lecture from The Pain Care for Primary Care Course. Delve into traditional and emerging techniques for addressing chronic pain while balancing the public health concerns of drug abuse. Learn about CDC guidelines, historical perspectives, and the rationale behind injection therapies. Examine common spinal procedures, including epidural steroid injections, facet joint treatments, and sacroiliac joint interventions. Discover visceral pain management techniques, sympathetic nerve blocks, and device-based therapies such as spinal cord stimulation and peripheral nerve stimulation. Gain insights into the effectiveness, cost considerations, and patient selection criteria for various interventional pain management strategies. Enhance your understanding of pain care to better serve patients presenting with diverse pain-related symptoms.

Intro
Interventional Approaches for Pain Traditional and Emerging
Objectives
Addressing the Dual Public Health Issues of Chronic Pain and Drug Abuse Risk management and new drug formulations may help balance the scale
CDC Guidelines
Historical Perspective
Why Do We Do Injections?
Common Spinal Procedures
Lumbar Spine
Ideal Candidates for ESI
Epidural Steroid Injections
Facet Joint Anatomy
Facet Anatomy
Axial Back & Neck Pain
Lumbar Facet Syndrome
Sacroiliac Joint Disease
SI Joint Pain Referral Zones
Sacroiliac Joint Injection
Radiofrequency Denervation for SIJ Pain: Challenges & Effectiveness
Visceral Pain
Sympathetic Nerve Blocks
Stellate Ganglion Block
SUPERIOR HYPOGASTRIC PLEXUS (SHP)
Device Components
Trial
Implantation Operating Room
Wireless, Miniaturized System
Success Rate
Cost-Effectiveness: SCS vs Alternative
Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Take-Home Points