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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: (January 2012, Volume 15, Issue 1)

  1 Guidelines Warfare Over Interventional Techniques: Is There a Lack of Discourse or Straw Man?
Health Policy Review
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, Frank J.E. Falco, MD, David L. Caraway, MD, Sukdeb Datta, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
  2 Physician Payment Outlook for 2012: Déjà Vu
Health Policy Review
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Vijay Singh, MD, David L. Caraway, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, Frank J.E. Falco, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD.
  3 Sensor-Driven Position-Adaptive Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain
Randomized Trial
David M. Schultz, MD, Lynn R. Webster, MD, Peter Kosek, MD, Urfan Dar, MD, Ye Tan, MS, and Mark Sun, PhD.
  4 Is the History of a Surgical Discectomy Related to the Source of Chronic Low Back Pain?
Retrospective Evaluation
Michael J. DePalma, MD, Jessica M. Ketchum, PhD, Thomas R. Saullo, MD, and Ben L Laplante, DO.
  5 Fluoroscopic Epidural Injections in Cervical Spinal Stenosis: Preliminary Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Active Control Trial
Randomized Trial
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Yogesh Malla, MD, Kimberly A. Cash, RT, Carla D. McManus, RN, BSN, and Vidyasagar Pampati, MSc.
  6 Fluoroscopic Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Managing Chronic Pain of Cervical Postsurgery Syndrome: Preliminary Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Active Control Trial
Randomized Trial
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Yogesh Malla, MD, Kimberly A. Cash, RT, Carla D. McManus, RN, BSN, and Vidyasagar Pampati, MSc.
  7 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation for Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain
Case Reports
David A. Stidd, MD, Adam L. Wuollet, MD, Kirk Bowden, DO, Theodore Price, MD, Amol Patwardhan, MD, PhD, Steve Barker, MD, PhD, Martin E Weinand, MD, Jeffrey Annabi, MD, and Emil Annabi, MD.
  8 Vertebroplasty Using Transoral Approach in Painful Malignant Involvement of the Second Cervical Vertebra (C2): A Single-Institution Series of 25 Patients
Prospective Evaluation
Giovanni Carlo Anselmetti, MD, Antonio Manca, MD, Filippo Montemurro, MD, Sean Tutton, MD, Gabriele Chiara, MD, Massimo Battistella, MD, Maurizio Savojardo, MD, Stefano Marcia, MD, Salvatore Masala, MD, and Daniele Regge, MD.
  9 Percutaneous Cement Vertebroplasty in the Treatment of Symptomatic Vertebral Hemangiomas
Observational Report
Jie Hao, MD, PhD, and ZhenMing Hu, MD, PhD.
  10 Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Injections in Central Spinal Stenosis: Preliminary Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Active Control Trial
Randomized Trial
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Kimberly A. Cash, RT, Carla D. McManus, RN, BSN, Kim S. Damron, RN, Vidyasagar Pampati, MSc, and Frank J.E. Falco, MD.
  11 Rising Complication Rates after Intrathecal Catheter and Pump Placement in the Pediatric Population: Analysis of National Data between 1997 and 2006
Observational Study
Narayana C Varhabhatla, MD, and Zhiyi Zuo, MD,PhD.
  12 Radiofrequency Neurotomy for Treatment of Low Back Pain in Patients with Minor Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
Retrospective Audit
Stephan Klessinger, MD
  13 Cephalad Lead Migration Following Spinal Cord Stimulation Implantation
Technical Report
Kai McGreevy, MD, Kayode A. Williams, MD, and Paul J. Christo, MD.
  14 Autologous Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Induce Persistent Bone-Like Tissue in Osteonecrotic Femoral Heads
Case Report
Jaewoo Pak, MD
  15 A Biomechanical Evaluation of the Epidural Neurolysis Procedure
Experimental Study
Christof Birkenmaier, MD, Stephen Baumert, candmed, Christian Schroeder, MSc, Volkmar Jansson, MD, and Bernd Wegener, MD.
  16 Determination of the Particulate Size and Aggregation of Clonidine and Corticosteroids for Epidural Steroid Injection
Laboratory Evaluation
Halena M. Gazelka, MD, Abram H. Burgher, MD, Marc C. Huntoon, MD, Carlos B. Mantilla, MD, and Bryan C. Hoelzer, MD.
  17 Experimental Evaluation of the Risk of Extradiscal Thermal Damage in Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy (IDET)
Experimental Study
Bernd Wegener, MD, Kristina Rieskamp, MD, Andreas Buttner, MD, PhD, Venant Habiyambere, Dipl.-Ing., Christoph von Schultze-Pellangahr, MD, PhD, Veronika Schaffer, MD, Volkmar Jansson, MD, PhD, and Christof Birkenmaier, MD.
  18 The Neurological Safety of Intrathecal Acyclovir in Rats
Experimental Trial
Heezoo Kim, MD, PhD, Yoon-La Choi, MD, PhD, Dong Kyu Lee, MD, PhD, Sang Sik Choi, MD, PhD, Ok Lee, MD, PhD, Myoung Hoon Kong, MD, PhD, Nan Sook Kim, MD, PhD, Sang Ho Lim, MD, PhD, and Mikyoung Lee, MD, PhD.
  19 In Response: A Better Technique?
In Response
Wonseok Hur, MD, and Sang Sik Choi, MD, PhD.