The Essential Pain Management Library Textbooks for Practitioners
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Highly Recommended:
ISIS GUIDELINES: A masterpiece many years in the
making. The leaders in the field of interventional pain
have developed practice guidelines that when
followed, will permit optimal outcomes based on
scientific publications, anatomic evaluation, and the
considerable expertise of the authors. Contains some
of the best fluoroscopic images and most in-depth
discussions of indications and outcomes ever
presented. A classic book essential to all
interventionalists.
Raj edits this now classic text. A very pragmatic
approach to pain without getting bogged down in
irrelevant trivia or enigmatic theoretical discussions.
Another essential book to aid the physician in the
pursuit of pain treatment.
Waldman's
Interventional Pain
Management 2nd
Edition is the best
collection of the sum
total of interventional
techniques available,
covering the entire
range of invasive pain
procedures.
Succinct, no nonsense
rapid assessment of
nerve root dysfunction,
spinal nerve dysfunction,
and cord injury levels.
Motor, sensory, reflex
testing with excellent
illustrations.
Recommended:
Fenton's book rocks! Excellent 3-D CT images for
interventional technique anatomical understanding,
well written and easy to rapidly find procedures
Basic and Clinical Anatomy of the Spine, Spinal
Cord, and ANS is filled with outstanding
illustrations, cross-sectional anatomy,
photographs, and diagrams to facilitate an
in-depth understanding of detailed spinal
anatomy.
Begin your journey into the genius of Bogduk
with this text book that details the
anatomical-physiological correlates in the
lumbar spine. Nobody does it better than
Bogduk.
Adams and Bogduk team
up to explore back pain
pathophysiology
Saunders Orthopedic
injection text is one of the
most widely used and least
expensive books available.
An excellent reference book.
An excellent survey of
pain syndromes and
the neurosurgical
options including
advanced techniques
Haldeman's book combines descriptive and
pictorial pathophysiology of back pain and the
conditions that lead to it.