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How to Treat Low Back Pain: A Guide for Treating Causes of Low Back Pain for Physicians and APPs focuses on current technology and cutting-edge treatment options, all validated by data. Each chapter presents a thorough review of patient selection, procedure technique, and potential adverse complications for each recommended treatment. Written by experts in the field for practitioners and clinicians treating low back pain, and with anatomic artwork and illustrations throughout, the book covers all aspects of lower back pain, the leading cause of disability in developed countries, with the number of people affected worldwide increasing annually.
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in health care costs to treat low back pain, and most of these treatments simply provide symptomatic relief with few strategies that actually contribute to correcting the underlying cause.
List of contents
Section 1. Appropriate Diagnosis1. History/Physical
2. Imaging for low back pain
3. Other Diagnostic Testing
Section 2. Conservative treatments4. Physical Therapy and Exercise
5. Chiropractic Treatment
6. Other Conservative Treatment
Section 3. Interventional Treatments7. Injections for Lumbar pain syndromes
8. Ablation for Low back pain (Medial Branch/BVN)
9. Regenerative/Restorative (Biologic) Medicine for Low back pain (Supplemental Disc Matrix/Stem Cell/PRP)
Section 4. Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures10. Percutaneous Interlaminar Lumbar Decompression (PILD)
11. Interspinous Implants (Spacers/Fusions)
12. Vertebral Augmentation
Section 5. Neurostimulation for Low back pain 13. Dorsal Column Stimulation
14. DRG Stimulation
15. Peripheral Nerve Stimulation/Multifidus Stimulation
Section 6. Intrathecal Therapies for low back pain 16. Long term opioid therapy
17. Non-opioid therapy
Section 7. FAQ's and Further Reading
About the author
Timothy R. Deer is a clinical professor of anesthesiology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, where he also received his medical degree. He completed his training in anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Virginia. Dr. Deer has published on a range of topics, including injection techniques, minimally invasive disc procedures, intrathecal drug delivery, and spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation. He lectures at many national and international symposiums and has been involved in the hands-on training of more than a thousand interventional pain specialists. He serves on the board of directors of the North American Neuromodulation Society and American Academy of Pain Medicine. He is a past chair of the committee on pain medicine of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, a member of the editorial board of the journal Neuromodulation, president of the West Virginia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and serves on several other boards and committees.Dr. Azeem is an associate assistant professor in the pain/neurology department of the University of South Florida, and actively continues to conduct research and author peer-reviewed publications in addition to treating patients, President, Florida Society of Pain & Neuroscience, Chair of Strategic Development for State Society Engagement and Advocacy, American Society of Pain & Neuroscience and Board of Directors, Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Foundation. Dr. Azeem served as a board member for the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation and held the position of director of neuromodulation in a multidisciplinary pain practice in New Orleans before moving to Florida. He recently developed the first successful non-opioid based interventional pain clinic in the Sarasota, Florida, area.
