For Physicians
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ASIPP Guidelines
- ASIPP Guidelines Summary
- ASIPP Guidelines
- Systematic Review of Discography as a Diagnostic Test for Spinal Pain: An Update
Pain Management:
Medical management - general
- Glia and Chronic Pain
- Glia as Bad Guys; paper on CNS glial cells and pain modulation/ opiates
- Sublingual Buprenorphine Is Effective in the Treatment of Chronic Pain Syndrome
- Article on the use of preemptive gabapentin in the preoperative setting
- Decreased Central µ - Opioid Receptor Availability
- Opiods and Patient Centered Healthcare
Medical management - suboxone induction tool
Exercise and Physical Therapy
Interventional - facet
- Narrative Review of Lumbar Medial Branch Neurotomy for the Treatment of Back Pain
- 2007 facet denervation review in Anesthesiology
- 2000 Multifidus EMG denervation
- 2000 Canadian cervical denervation study
- 1999 Lumbar Denervation Van Kleef
- 1996 NEJM Cervical Facet Denervation
ISIS
- ISIS Low Back Pain algorithm; Lumbar Medial Branch Blocks and Discogram
- ISIS Fluoroscopic Guidance Position Statement for Epidurals and Pain Procedures
- ISIS Blind Epidural Study
- ISIS Why Pursue Discogenic Pain Bogduk
NASS
- Critique of NEJM Vertebroplasty Studies
- North American Spine Society Evidence Based Clinical Guidelines for Spinal Stenosis
Neuromodulation
- Joint Position Statement on ACOEM Guidelines
- Joint Position Statement on Spinal Cord Neurostimlation
Misc
- Clinical Evidence of Chemical Radiculopathy
- Dystonia Fact Sheet
- Joint Popping and Crepitiation Review Paper
- Central Sensitization, a Biopsychosocial Explanation for Chronic Widespread Pain in Patients with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Biaculoplasty for discogenic pain 6 month fu study
- Comparison of Interlaminar and Transforaminal Epidural Steroids for HNP and Spinal Stenosis
- Kyphoplasty Lancet Study
- The Role of the Adipocytokines Adiponectin and Leptin in Migrane
Rehabilitation
- Poststroke rehabilitation outcomes - SNF vs acute rehabilitation good study with large sample size
- Nice citation on timing of initiation of rehabilitation after stroke
- M Power Admission Order Packet
- Standards for Assessing Medical Appropriateness Criteria for Admitting Patients to Rehabilitation Hospitals or Units