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.