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Pain Physician is a bi-monthly journal, the official publication of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP).

Pain Physician is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal written by and directed to an audience of interventional pain physicians, clinicians and basic scientists with an interest in interventional pain management and pain medicine.

Pain Physician
presents the latest studies, research, and information vital to those in the emerging specialty of interventional pain management – and critical to the people they serve.
Editor-in-Chief:
Howard S. Smith. MD

Managing Editor - Bert Fellows, MA
editor@painphysicianjournal.com

Current issue highlights: (September 2009, Volume 12, Issue 5)

  1 Independent Medical Examinations: Facts and Fallacies
Health Policy
Paul Ky, DO, Haroon Hameed, MD, and Paul J. Christo, MD.
  2 Evidence-Based Medicine, Systematic Reviews, and Guidelines in Interventional Pain Management: Part 6. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies
Evidence-Based Medicine
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Sukdeb Datta, MD, Howard S. Smith, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
  3 Herpes Zoster Radiculopathy Treated with Fluoroscopically-Guided Selective Nerve Root Injection
Case Report
Theodore D. Conliffe, MD, Madhuri Dholakia, MD, and Zach Broyer, MD.
  4 Accuracy of Diagnostic Lumbar Facet Joint Nerve Blocks: A 2-Year Follow-Up of 152 Patients Diagnosed with Controlled Diagnostic Blocks
Original Contribution
Sneha Pampati, , Kimberly A. Cash, RT, and Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD.
  5 Occipital Neurostimulation-Induced Muscle Spasms: Implications for Lead Placement
Case Report
Salim M. Hayek, MD, PhD, Joseph F. Jasper, MD, Timothy R. Deer, MD, and Samer N. Narouze, MD.
  6 Pain in Nursing Home Residents and Correlation with Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Observational Report
M. Sami Walid, MD, PhD, and Nadezda Zaytseva, PhD.
  7 Successful Treatment of Meralgia Paresthetica with Pulsed Radiofrequency of the Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve
Case Report
Cyril N. Philip, MD, Kenneth D. Candido, MD, Ninos J. Joseph, BS, and George J. Crystal, PhD.
  8 Polymethylmethacrylate and Radioisotopes in Vertebral Augmentation: An Explanation of Underlying Principles
Focused Review
Ariel E. Hirsch, MD, Barry S. Rosenstein, PhD, David C. Medich, PhD, CHP, Christopher B. Martel, CHP, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
  9 Low and Therapeutic Doses of Antidepressants are Associated with Similar Response in the Context of Multimodal Treatment of Pain
Observational Report
Zahid H. Bajwa, MD, Thomas T. Simopoulos, MD, Joshua Pal, MD, Jan J. Kraemer, MD, Pradeep Chopra, MD, Jyotsna V. Nagda, MD, Umer Najib, MD, James Celestin, MD, Khuram Sial, MD, Bilal Ahmad, MD, Carol Warfield, MD, Theodore I. Steinman, MD, and Joshua Wootton, PhD.
  10 Hydrogen Sulfide’s Involvement in Modulating Nociception
Back to Basics
Howard S. Smith, MD
  11 Atypical Chest Pain: Evidence of Intercostobrachial Nerve Sensitization in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Observational Report
Jennifer W. Rasmussen, MD, John R. Grothusen, PhD, Andrea L. Rosso, MPH, and Robert J. Schwartzman, MD.
  12 Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome after Subtalar Arthrodesis is Not Prevented by Early Hyperbaric Oxygen
Case Report
Simon TB Williams, MBBCh, Anthony Davies, FRCA, and Phil Bryson, MBBS.