Interventional Spine

Part 1 General principles Section 1: Introduction 1. Past, present and future of interventional physiatry 2. Epidemiology Section 2: Spinal pain 3. Inflammatory basis of spinal pain 4. Transduction, transmission and perception of pain 5. Central influences on pain Section 3: General diagnostic technique 6. Radiology 7. Nuclear medicine imaging with an emphasis on spinal infections 8. Electrodiagnostic approach to patients with suspected radiculopathy 9. The psychiatric and psychological evaluation of the chronic pain patient Section 4: Practical pharmacology 10. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs 11. Adjuvant analgesics for radicular pain 12. Pharmacology of local anesthetic agents 13. Steroids in spine interventions 14. Opioid analgesics 15. The diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders in chronic spinal pain Part 2: Interventional spine techniques Section 1: Principles and concepts underpinning spinal injection procedures 16. Principles of diagnostic blocks 17. Neurophysiology of diagnostic injections 18. Placebo 19. Patient education and support 20. Side effects and complications of injection procedures: anticipation and management 21. Radiation Safety - Theory and Practical Concerns 22. Sedation for percutaneous procedures Section 2: Interventional spine techniques 23. Spinal injections 24. Technique of radiofrequency denervation 25. Discography 26. IDET technique 27. Technique for chemonucleolysis of lumbar disc herniation 28. Automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy: technique 29. Laser 30. Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain management implantation techniques 31. Intrathecal therapies and totally implantable drug delivery systems 32. Vertebroplasty 33. Kyphoplasty technique Part 3: Specific disorders Section 1: Medical spinal disoders 34. Medical Radiculopathies 35. Spondyloarthropathies 36. Spine Infections: an algorithmic approach 37. Nonosseous spinal tumors Section 2: Osseus spinal tumors Subsection i: Physiology and assessment 38. Bone biology 39. Osteoporosis 40. Paget's disease 41. Secondary Bone Tumors 42. Primary Tumors Subsection ii: Treatment 43. Spinal Orthoses 44. Vertebroplasty 45. Kyphoplasty Section 3: Cervical Spine Subsection i: Anatomy and assessment 46. Developmental and functional anatomy of the cervical spine 47. Medical causes of neck pain 48. Examination of the cervical spine 49. Biomechanics and assessment of the painful shoulder 50. Cervical myelopathy 51. Cervical instability Subsection ii: Whiplash 52. Biomechanics of the cervical spine during whiplash injury 53. Pathophysiolgic evidence of injury 54. Sociocultural evidence and whiplash 55. Soft tissue injuries following whiplash 56. Epidemiology of disc, joint and root pain in whiplash Subsection iii: Treatment Subsubsection i: Cervical radicular pain 57. Cervical radicular pain: an algorithmic methodology 58. Rehabilitation methods in cervical radicular pain 59. Cervical radicular pain: injection procedures 60. Surgery for cervical radicular pain 61. Surgical decompression for foraminal stenosis Subsubsection ii: Cervical axial pain 62. An algorithmic methodology for cervical axial neck pain 63. Rehabilitation methods 64. Therapeutic injections for the treatment of axial neck pain and cervicogenic headaches 65. Sympathetic System 66. Cervical spine 67. Cervical discography: diagnostic value and complications 68. Fusion Surgery for axial pain Subsubsection iii: Other disorders of the cervical spine 69. Cervicogenic Headache 70. Surgical treatment of cervical myelopathy Section 4: Biomechanical disorders of the thoracic spine 71. Developmental and functional anatomy and examination of the thoracic spine 72. Thoracic spinal pain 73. Injection procedures 74. Thoracic pain syndromes 75. Surgery: thoracic disc disease Section 5: Biomechanical disorders of the lumbar spine Subsection i: Intervertebral disk disorders Subsubsection i: Physiology and assessment 76. Medical causes of low back pain 77. The Lumbar Degenerative Disc 78. Biomechanics of the intervertebral disc 79. Physical examination of the lumbar spine 80. Developmental and functional anatomy of the lumbar spine Subsubsection ii: Lumbar radicular pain 81. Medical rehabilitation 82. An algorithmic methodology 83. Injection procedures 84. Percutaneous discectomy 85. Percutaneous disc decompression 86. Surgical decompression for herniated nucleus pulposus 87. Surgical decompression for spinal stenosis 88. Postoperative rehabilitation Subsubsection iii: Lumbar axial pain 89. Lumbar axial pain - an algorithmic methodology 90. Medical Rehabilitation - Lumbar Axial Pain 91. Manipulation and Manual Methods 92. Injection procedures 93. Radiofrequency Denervation 94. Lumbar provocation discography: clinical relevance, sensitivity, specificity, and controversies 95. Intradiscal steroids and prolotherapy: clinical relevance, outcomes and efficacy 96. Intradiscal electrothermal annuloplasty 97. Surgical treatment of axial back pain 98. Spondylolisthesis: epidemiology and assessment 99. Spondylolisthesis: medical rehabilitation and interventional spine techniques 100. Surgical management of isthmic, dysplastic and degenerative spondylolisthesis 101. Instability: clinical manifestations and assessment 102. Fusion surgery Subsection 4: FBSS - Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar 103. Failed back surgery 104. Neural scarring 105. Postoperative pseudomeningocele, hematoma and seroma 106. Lysis of Adhesions 107. Spinal cord stimulation in chronic pain 108. Neuraxial drug administration to treat pain of spinal origin 109. Spinal ablative techniques for the treatment of chronic pain conditions Subsubsection 1: Functional restoration 110. History and principles of pain rehabilitation 111. Deconditioning 112. Functional restoration program characteristics in chronic pain tertiary rehabilitation 113. Tertiary rehabilitation program outcomes Part 4: Extra-spinal disorders Section 1: Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome 114. Epidemiology and examination 115. Sacroiliac joint rehabilitation and manipulation 116. Therapeutic injections and radiofrequency denervation 117. Surgery for sacroiliac joint syndrome Section 2: Sacral Disorders 118. Hip spine syndrome 119. Sacral insufficiency fractures 120. Coccydynia 121. Piriformis syndrome Part 5: Pregnancy 122. Epidemiology 123. Low back pain and pregnancy-examination and diagnostic work-up in the pregnant patient 124. Treatment of low back pain in pregnancy - special considerations Part 6: Interventional spine in sports 125. Biomechanics of the spine in sports 126. On-the-field assessment of the cervical spine-injured athlete 127. Epidemiology of injuries 128. Acute Intervention and Return to Play 129. Spondylolysis 130. Return to competition following prolonged injury Part 7: New Frontiers 131. Disc replacement 132. Fusion - minimally invasive techniques 133. Endoscopic discectomy and foraminal decompression