Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management

Part I. Neurostimulation: Spinal Cord
1. History of Neurostimulation
2. Patient Selection
3. Disease Indications
4. Preoperative Evaluation for Spinal Cord Stimulation
5. Perioperative Precautions for Infection Control
6. Needle Placement for Percutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation of the Back and Legs
7. Physician-guided Lead Placement: Driving the Lead to the Target Location
8. Stimulation of the Spinal Cord by Placement of Surgical-Based Paddle Leads
9. Programming Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems
10. Anchoring Percutaneous Leads During Permanent Device Placement
11. Tunneling Spinal Cord Stimulation Systems
12. Pocketing Techniques for Spinal Cord Stimulation and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
13. Wound Closure
14. Wound Healing
15. Complications of Spinal Cord Stimulation
16. Stimulation of the Nervous System to Treat Neuropathic Pain of the Foot
17. Sacral Nerve Root Stimulation for the Treatment of Pelvic and Rectal Pain
18. Selective Nerve Root Stimulation: Facilitating the Cephalocaudal "Retrograde" Method of Electrode Insertion
19. Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Anterior Abdominal Pain
20. Electromyographic/Somatosensory-Evoked Potential Monitoring During Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Stimulation
21. Electromyographic/Somatosensory Evoked Potential Monitoring During Sacral Neuromodulation
22. The Future of Neurostimulation
23. Spinal Cord Stimulation of the Dorsal Root Ganglion for the Treatment of Pain
24. High-Frequency Stimulation of the Spinal Cord
25. Burst Stimulation: An Innovative Waveform Strategy for Spinal Cord Stimulation

Part II. Neurostimulation: Peripheral Nerve and Peripheral Nerve Field
26. Stimulation of the Extraspinal Peripheral Nervous System
27. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Knee Pain
28. Neurostimulation of the Upper Extremity by Conventional Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
29. Ultrasound Guidance for the Placement of Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Devices
30. High-Frequency Electric Nerve

Timothy R. Deer, MD, DABPM

Editor

Dr. Deer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for Pain Relief, Inc. in Charleston, West Virginia and Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of West Virginia School of Medicine, Morgantown. He is President-Elect of the International Neuromodulation Society and a former member of the board of directors of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He serves on the editorial committee of the journals Neuromodulation, Pain Medicine, and Pain Physician. Dr. Deer is Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Pain by Medical, Interventional, and Integrative Approaches: the AMERICAN ACADEMY of PAIN MEDICINE Textbook on Patient Management (Springer, 2013).



Jason E. Pope, MD

Associate Editor

Dr. Pope is the President of Summit Pain Alliance in Santa Rosa, California. He has recently been appointed to the North American Neuromodulation Society board as a Director-at-Large and serves as Secretary of the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. During residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, he served as faculty with a dual appointment at the Veteran Affairs Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology. He completed fellowship training in pain medicine at The Cleveland Clinic which subsequently invited to join the faculty as Associate Staff.