This multi-faceted book provides readers with comprehensive guidance to spine pain care. Unique in structure, the contents integrate various specialties involved in spine pain care, thereby bringing in new prospective and expanding readership. 
This six part reference begins with a review on the epidemiology and economic impacts that present clinical and financial challenges for spine pain care. Part two then brings the reader into a review of the anatomy, pathophysiology, and etiology of spine pain. Subsequent parts then dive into clinical evaluation tactics, unique disease conditions and treatment options. Finally, the book closes with two chapters discussing the challenges of spine pain medicine and the potential future directions of the field.  
Written by experts in their respective fields, Spine Pain Care - A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a first-of-its-kind, barrier breaking work designed for allprofessionals involved in spine pain care, including physicians and nurses, as well as medical students, residents and fellows as a supplementary educational material.  

Part I. Epidemiology and Economic Impact

Chapter 1. Spine Pain Care: Clinical Challenges and Unmet Research Needs
Chapter 2. The Epidemiology and Economic Impact of Spine Pain
Chapter 3. Current and Emerging Payment Models for Spine Pain Care: Evidence-Based, Outcomes-Based, or Both?
Part II. Anatomy, Pathophysiology, and Etiology
Chapter 4. Functional Anatomy of the Human Spine
Chapter 5. Pathophysiology of Spinal Pain
Chapter 6. Clinical and Research Tools for Pain Assessment
Part III. Clinical Evaluation
Chapter 7. History and Physical Examination
 Chapter 8. Radiological Evaluation of the Lumbar Spine
Chapter 9. Neurological Exam and Neurophysiologic Evaluation for the Pain Patient
Chapter 10. Psychological and Psychiatric Evaluation of the Spine Pain Patient: An Interface of the Mind/Body Dynamic
Part IV. Spine Pain Conditions
Chapter 11. Spinal Stenosis
Chapter 12. Disk Herniation and Radiculopathy
Chapter 13. Degenerative Spine Joint Disease
Chapter 14. Degenerative Disk Disease
Chapter 15. Cervicogenic Headache
Chapter 16. Infectious and Autoimmune Disease and Spine Pain
Chapter 17. Oncology and Spine Pain
Chapter 18. Pediatric Spine Pain
Part V. Treatment of Spine Pain
Chapter 19. Opioid and Non-Opioid Therapy
Chapter 20. Surgical Interventions for Spine Pain Management
Chapter 21. Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures for Spine Pain Management
Chapter 22. Epidural Steroid Injections
Chapter 23. Nerve Block and Radiofrequency Ablation
Chapter 24. Neuromodulation for Spine Pain Care
Chapter 25. Intrathecal Drug Delivery
 Chapter 26. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty
Chapter 27. Fluoroscopic Images of Spinal Procedures and Radiation Safety
 Chapter 29. Sympathetic Neural Blockade and Trigger Point Injections
Chapter 30. Miscellaneous Spine Procedures: Nucleoplasty, Intradiscal Electrothermal therapy
Chapter 31. Complications of Interventional Therapy forthe Management of Low Back Pain
Chapter 32. Regional Anesthesia in Patients with Spine Pain
Chapter 33. Radiation Therapy for Oncologic Spine Pain
Chapter 34. Rehabilitation Approaches to Spine Care: Physical therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Aquatic Therapy
Chapter 35. Psychological Assessment and Behavioral Management of Spine Pain
Chapter 36. Integrative Medicine
Chapter 37. Organizational and Nursing Issues Related to Spine Pain Care
 Part VI. Challenges and Future Directions
Chapter 38. Basic Research for Pain
Chapter 39. Chronic Low Back Pain: Improving Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment.