Physician payment 2008 for interventionalists: current state of health care policy [0.03%]
2008年介入性医生薪酬：当前的卫生保健政策状况
Laxmaiah Manchikanti,James Giordano
Laxmaiah Manchikanti
Physicians in the United States have been affected by significant changes in the pattern(s) of medical practice evolving over the last several decades. These changes include new measures to 1) curb increasing costs, 2) increase access to pa...
Review
Pain physician. 2007 Sep;10(5):607-26. DOI: 2007
Michael Behrend,Richard Rosenthal
Michael Behrend
Background: Students of interventional spine procedures typically learn needle injection technique using cadaver specimens or live patients in an operating room. This can be expensive, inefficient, uncomfortable to patien...
Comparing pain reduction following kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures [0.03%]
骨质疏松性椎体压缩骨折患者经皮椎体后凸成形术与椎体成形术止痛效果的比较研究
J Brian Gill,Mark Kuper,Paul C Chin et al.
J Brian Gill et al.
Background: Osteoporosis with subsequent osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures is an increasingly important disease due not only to its significant economic impact but also to the increasing age of our population. ...
Meta-Analysis
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):583-90. DOI: 2007
Lawrence Weil,Richard I Gracer,Neal Frauwirth
Lawrence Weil
Spinal headache is an occasional, but painful complication of epidural injection procedures due to dural puncture that allows leakage of CSF from the thecal sac, thereby reducing intracranial pressure. In the event of failure of conservativ...
Case Reports
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):579-82. DOI: 2007
Treatment of CRPS with ECT [0.03%]
ECT治疗CRPS
Marie Wojcik Wolanin,Vasko Gulevski,Robert J Schwartzman
Marie Wojcik Wolanin
Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a well-established treatment method for medically refractory depression. ECT has also been used in the treatment of pain for over 50 years. The mechanism of action of ECT is ...
Case Reports
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):573-8. DOI: 2007
Treatment of iliopsoas tendinitis after a left total hip arthroplasty with botulinum toxin type A [0.03%]
肉毒杆菌A型治疗左侧人工髋关节置换术后髂腰肌肌腱炎
David E Fish,Wanda S Chang
David E Fish
Objective: Treatment of iliopsoas tendinitis after a left total hip arthroplasty with botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A). Design: Case stud...
Case Reports
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):565-71. DOI: 2007
Suhail Afzal,Shabir Dhar,Niraj B Vasavada et al.
Suhail Afzal et al.
Background: Vertebral augmentation has been widely used to treat vertebral body compression fractures caused by varied pathologies. The lifetime risk of a vertebral body compression fracture is 16% for women and 5% for me...
Clinical Trial
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):559-63. DOI: 2007
Fluoroscopically guided caudal epidural steroid injections in degenerative lumbar spine stenosis [0.03%]
荧光引导下腰椎间盘狭窄症的尾椎硬膜外类固醇注射疗法
Kenneth Botwin,Lee Ann Brown,Mark Fishman et al.
Kenneth Botwin et al.
Background: Caudal epidural steroid injections are commonly utilized to help reduce radicular pain in lumbar spinal stenosis. There have been studies done to evaluate the effectiveness of this procedure non-fluoroscopical...
Combining ultrasonography and electromyography for botulinum chemodenervation treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome: comparison with fluoroscopy and electromyography guidance [0.03%]
超声和电生理引导肉毒杆菌治疗胸廓出口综合征的疗效比较及优势分析：一项回顾性研究
Sheldon E Jordan,Samuel S Ahn,Hugh A Gelabert
Sheldon E Jordan
Background: Botulinum chemodenervation has been increasingly used for treating conditions characterized by muscular pain and dystonia. Complication rates commonly exceed 10 percent in published accounts due to an inadvert...
Comparative Study
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):541-6. DOI: 2007
Is impedance a parameter to be taken into account in spinal cord stimulation? [0.03%]
脊髓刺激中阻抗是需要考虑的参数吗？
David Abejon,Claudio A Feler
David Abejon
Background: Over the last few decades, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has become one of the main treatments in the therapeutic arsenal available to pain treatment units. New stimulation systems have been developed and the ...
Clinical Trial
Pain physician. 2007 Jul;10(4):533-40. DOI: 2007