Articles

  1. 2014;17;E1-E10Opioids In Chronic Noncancer Pain: Have We Reached A Boiling Point Yet?
    Health Policy
    Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Sairam Atluri, MD, Hans Hansen, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, Frank J.E. Falco, MD, Standiford Helm II, MD, Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
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  2. 2014;17;E11-E19Declining Value of Work of Interventional Pain Physicians
    Health Policy
    Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Hans Hansen, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, Frank J.E. Falco, MD, Alan D Kaye, MD, PhD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
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  3. 2014;17;E21-E26The Tragedy Of The Sustained Growth Rate Formula Continues Into 2014: Is There Hope or Repeal?
    Health Policy
    Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Frank J.E. Falco, MD, Hans Hansen, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
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  4. 2014;17;1-8Tonabersat for Migraine Prophylaxis: A Systematic Review
    Systematic Review
    Yue Cao, MM, and Ou Jin Zheng, MD.
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  5. 2014;17;E27-E44Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Antagonists in the Treatment of Low Back Pain and Radiculopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
    Systematic Review
    Daniel C Pimentel, MD, Omar El Abd, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, Anna M Buehler, PharmD, PhD, Victor F Leite, MD, Danesh Mazloomdoost, MD, Janini Chen, PT, Wu Tu Hsing, MD, PhD, and Joao ED Amadera, MD, PhD.
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  6. 2014;17;E45-E60Anti-Nerve Growth Factor in the Treatment of Low Back Pain and Radiculopathy: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis
    Systematic Review
    Victor F Leite, MD, Anna M Buehler, PharmD, PhD, Omar El Abd, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, Daniel C Pimentel, MD, Janini Chen, PT, Wu Tu Hsing, MD, PhD, Danesh Mazloomdoost, MD, and Joao ED Amadera, MD, PhD.
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  7. 2014;17;E61-E74A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Control Trial of the Effectiveness of Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Disc Herniation
    Randomized Trial
    Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Vijay Singh, MD, Kimberly A. Cash, RT, Vidyasagar Pampati, MSc, and Frank J.E. Falco, MD.
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  8. 2014;17;E75-E82Adjuvant Hyaluronidase to Epidural Steroid Improves the Quality of Analgesia in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial
    Randomized Trial
    Poupak Rahimzadeh, MD, Vandana Sharma, MBBS, Farnad Imani, MD, Hamid Reza Faiz, MD, Mohammad Reza Ghodraty, MD, Ali R Nikzad-Jamnani, MD, and Nader Djalal Nader, MD, PhD.
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  9. 2014;17;9-20Evidence of Specific Cognitive Deficits in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain under Long-Term Substitution Treatment of Opioids
    Prospective Review
    Marcus Schiltenwolf, MD, Michael Akbar, MD, Andreas Hug, MD, Ute Pfuller, MD, Simone Gantz, Dipl.Soc., Eva Neubauer, Dipl. Psych, Herta Flor, MD, PhD, and Haili Wang, MD.
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  10. 2014;17;21-27Intravascular Flow Detection During Transforaminal Epidural Injections: A Prospective Assessment
    Prospective Evaluation
    Omar El Abd, MD, Joao ED Amadera, MD, PhD, Daniel C Pimentel, MD, and Thais SC Pimentel, MSc.
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  11. 2014;17;29-41Occipital Nerve Stimulation in the Treatment of Medically Intractable SUNCT and SUNA
    Prospective Evaluation
    Giorgio Lambru, MD, Paul Shanahan, MB, BCh, BAO, MRCP, Laurence Watkins, MD, FRCS, and Manjit Singh Matharu, MBChB, MRCP, PhD.
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  12. 2014;17;43-51Pelvic Belt Effects on Sacroiliac Joint Ligaments: A Computational Approach to Understand Therapeutic Effects of Pelvic Belts
    Experimental Study
    Freddy Sichting, MSC, Jerome Rossol, BSc, Odette Soisson, MD, Stefan Klima, MD, Thomas Milani, PhD, and Niels Hammer, MD.
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  13. 2014;17;53-62Is Life Better After Motor Cortex Stimulation for Pain Control? Results at Long-Term and their Prediction by Preoperative rTMS
    Prospective Evaluation
    Nathalie Andre-Obadia, MD, Patrick Mertens, MD, PhD, Taissia Lelekov-Boissard, PhD, Afif Afif, MD, PhD, Michel Magnin, PhD, and Luis Garcia-Larrea, MD, PhD.
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  14. 2014;17;63-70Utility of Oral Fluid in Compliance Monitoring of Opioid Medications
    Prospective Evaluation
    Till Conermann, MD, Ankur R Gosalia, MD, Abraham J. Kabazie, MD, Christina Moore, PhD, Kathy Miller, BA, Madalene Fetsch, MS, and Dwain Irvan, C(ASCP)CM.
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  15. 2014;17;71-79Thermal Pain in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I
    Retrospective Review
    John R. Grothusen, PhD, Guillermo M Alexander, PhD, Kirsten Erwin, BS, and Robert J. Schwartzman, MD.
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  16. 2014;17;81-94Medication Compliance in Patients with Chronic Pain
    Cross-Sectional Study
    Katherina Kipping, MD, Christoph Maier, MD, Heinz H Bussemas, MS, and Andreas Schwarzer, MD, PhD.
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  17. 2014;17;95-108Craniofacial Pain and Disability Inventory (CF-PDI): Development and Psychometric Validation of a New Questionnaire
    Prospective Evaluation
    Roy La Touche, PT, MSc, Joaquin Pardo-Montero, PhD, Alfonso Gil-Martinez, PT, MSc, Alba Paris-Alemany, PT, MsC, Santiago Angulo-Diaz-Parreno, MSc, Juan Carlos Suarez-Falcon, PhD, Manuel Lara-Lara, MD, and Josue Fernandez-Carnero, PT, PhD.
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  18. 2014;17;E83-E87Combined Ultrasound and Fluoroscopic Guidance for Radiofrequency Ablation of the Obturator Nerve for Intractable Cancer-Associated Hip Pain
    Case Report
    Jonathan Stone, BS, and Gerald Matchett, MD.
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  19. 2014;17;E89-E94Radioisotope Cisternography: A Potentially Useful Tool for Headache Diagnosis in Patients with an IDD Pump
    Case Report
    Jose De Andres, MD, PhD, Miguel J Esparza, MD, Jose Ferrer-Rebolleda, MD, Ascension Castillo-Ruiz, MD, and Vincent L Villaneuva-Perez, MD.
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  20. 2014;17;E95-E98Resolution of Long Standing Tinnitus Following Radiofrequency Ablation of C2-C3 Medial Branches – A Case Report
    Case Report
    Karina Gritsenko, MD, William Caldwell, DO, Naum Shaparin, MD, Amaresh Vydyanathan, MD, and Boleslav Kosharskyy, MD.
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  21. 2014;17;E99-E105Deactivation of Distant Pain-Related Regions Induced by 20-day rTMS: A Case Study of One-week Pain Relief for Long-Term Intractable Deafferentation Pain
    Case Report
    Yan-Qun Qiu, MD, Xu-Yun Hua, MD, Chuan-Tao Zuo, MD, Tie Li, MB, Mou-Xiong Zheng, MD, Yun-Dong Shen, MD, Jian-Guang Xu, MD, PhD, Yu-Dong Gu, MD, Paolo M Rossini, MD, PhD, and Wen-Dong Xu, MD, PhD.
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  22. 2014;17;E107Ganglion Impar Block for Sympathetically Mediated Pain in a Patient with a Rectourethral Fistula
    Letter to the Editor
    Sujeet KS Gautam, MD, Anil Agarwal, MD, and Pravin K Das, MD.
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  23. 2014;17;E108-E110Ankle Brachial Index and Exercise Transcutaneous Oxygen Pressure Measurement in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease and Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
    Letter to the Editor
    Guillaume Mahe, MD, PhD, Adrien Kaladji, MD, and Vincent Jaquinandi, MD, PhD.
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