Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Identification and Management of Pain Patients

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Identification of the Pain Patient

      • Alexios G. Carayannopoulos

      Pages 3-10

   3. Role of Spinal Surgery in Pain Management

      • George M. Ghobrial, Alexander Vaccaro, James S. Harrop

      Pages 11-18

   4. Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

      • Youngwon Youn, Heather C. Smith, Julie G. Pilitsis

      Pages 19-28

   5. Cervical Pain Syndromes

      • Bryan C. Hoelzer

      Pages 29-43

   6. Revision Surgery and Alternative Treatment Options for Recurrent Pain Following Spinal Surgery

      • Aleka Scoco, Jonathan P. Miller, Jennifer A. Sweet

      Pages 45-55

   7. Considerations for Neuromodulation

      • Jeffrey S. Berger

      Pages 57-68

3. Integrating Pain Management into Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Practice Setup

      • Steven M. Falowski

      Pages 71-75

   3. Referral Networks

      • Jason E. Pope

      Pages 77-83

   4. Integration of Specialties

      • Steven M. Falowski

      Pages 85-87

   5. Coding and Reimbursement for Spinal Cord Stimulation

      • Jason E. Pope, Steven M. Falowski

      Pages 89-96

4. Pain Management Therapies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Medications Used for the Treatment of Back Pain

      • Jonathan D. Carlson, Joshua Peloquin, Steven M. Falowski

      Pages 99-108

   3. Interventional Procedures

      • Daniel A. Fung, Timothy T. Davis

      Pages 109-130

   4. Neuromodulation

      • Kasra Amirdelfan

      Pages 131-147

   5. Intrathecal Therapy for Chronic Spine Pain

      • Melinda M. Lawrence, Salim M. Hayek

      Pages 149-162

5. Surgical Pain Therapies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Epidural Paddle Placement for Spinal Cord Stimulation

      • Peter G. Campbell, Steven M. Falowski

      Pages 165-173

This book fills the gap in knowledge and patient care by showing spine surgeons how to integrate pain management techniques into their practice. The first of its kind, Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice is in tune with current efforts by major neurosurgical and neuromodulation societies and leading manufacturers of neuromodulation equipment to educate spine surgeons on the management of their patients’ post-surgical pain.   


Designed as an all-in-one volume, this book explains how to identify candidates for pain treatment and when to refer them to specialists. It also presents “how-to” clinical information on approaches to managing pain, from the medical to the interventional  and provides practical business guidance on coding and reinforcement.   

• neurosurgery
• orthopedics
• pain treatment
• practice management
• spinal surgery

“Integrating Pain Treatment Into Your Spine Practice is a novel and unique book that fills a longstanding need for a reference on how to combine the business and management aspects with the scientific, evidence-based component of pain care in a spine practice. The book is superbly organized, well thought out, comprehensive, easy to read and carries the depth of knowledge needed to start bringing pain care practice into your spine practice. Content is written by the field leaders and presents the most up-to-date and highest level of evidence available for each topic. The editors are national and international authorities on this timely subject and they present their unique experience in building such as practice that is both efficient and clinically excellent. This book should be in the immediate access library of all spine practitioners as well pain management practitioners.” (AANS/ CNS Section on Pain, painsection.org, August, 2016)

  

• St. Luke’s University Health Network, Neurosurgery, Bethlehem, USA

  Steven M. Falowski

• Summit Pain Alliance, Santa Rosa, USA

  Jason E. Pope

Dr. Falowski is Director of Functional Neurosurgery at St. Lukes University Health Network in Bethlehem, PA with a practice involving spinal procedures, as well as neuromodulation. He trained in complex spinal procedures at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as completed a functional fellowship at Rush University.  


He is faculty of both Congress of Neurological Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons, as well as a board member of the CNS/AANS Pain Committee. He is on the board of directors for the North American Neuromodulation Society(NANS) as well as scientific program chair for the annual meetings.    


His major focus in society and industry revolves around education, integration of specialties, and practice management. He is the course director of the annual NANS spinal cord stimulation/neuromodulation workshop that is the largest international course available and brought to the forefront the integration of neuromodulation among various specialties including Pain, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. He also serves as course director for educational offerings across multiple surgical and pain societies including course director of the AANS workshop focusing on integrating pain therapies in spine practices. 






Dr. Pope is the President of Summit Pain Alliance in Santa Rosa, California.  He serves the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) as a Director-at Large, Membership Committee Chair, Advocacy and Policy Committee Co-chair, and is the Annual Meeting Co-Chair for the upcoming 2017 meeting.  He completed an Anesthesiology Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and went on Fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.  Following Fellowship, he advocated for pain care access and therapy as a congressional fellow to a member of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Sub-committee on Health

 

Dr. Pope is also engaged as the Co-Chair for the Special Interest Group in Neuromodulation for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA). Further, he is the Committee Chair for CME and Education for the International Neuromodulation Society (INS), working on efforts to improve global exposure to pain treatment and neuromodulation techniques.

 

Focused on education, Dr. Pope is centered on improving outcomes and safety.  He is well published in peer-reviewed journals, authored many chapters, textbooks and atlases, while presenting at regional, national, and international meetings.  Working foundationally on comprehensive workshops for fellows, residents, and physicians in practice, both domestically and internationally, Dr. Pope and his colleagues are working towards an improved neromodulation space. 

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