Samer N Narouze, MD, MSc, DABPM, FIPP

Chairman, Center for Pain Medicine

Summa Western Reserve Hospital

Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA

First book on interventional management of head and face pain

Edited and written by world class authorities

Full range of procedures, from nerve blocks for head and face pain to peripheral and central neuromodulation

Practical, step-by-step guidance for performing each procedure

Section I. Indications for Interventional management.- 1. Headache Classifications and Medically Resistant Headaches.- 2. Algorithms for the diagnosis and management of head and face pain.- Section II. Nerve Blocks for head and face pain.- 3. Peripheral nerve block for the management of headache and face pain.- 4. Occipital nerve blocks.- Section III. Cervicogenic Headache.- 5. Occipital neuralgia: The role of ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment.- 6. Glossopharyngeal nerve block.- 7. Sphenopalatine Ganglion Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.- 8. Trigeminal Gasserian Ganglion, Maxillary Nerve and Mandibular Nerve blocks.- 9. Interventional treatment for Trigeminal neuralgia: radiofrequency and neuromodulation.- 10. Practical Approach to Cervicogenic Headache.- 11. Atlanto-Axial Joint: Atlanto-Axial Joint Injection and Radiofrequency Ablation.- 12. Third Occipital Nerve Block and Radiofrequency Ablation.- 13. Cervical facet syndrome: cervial medical branch block and radiofrequency ablation .- Section IV. Other Common interventions for headaches.- 14. Intravenous therapy for intractable headaches.- 15. Botulinium toxin injection and headaches.- 16. Epidural blood patch.- Section V. Neuromodulation for head and face pain.- 17. Occipital nerve stimulation for head pain : Surgical leads.- 18. Occipital nerve stimulation for head pain : Percutaneous leads.- 19. Sphenopalatine Ganglion Stimulation.- 20. Deep brain and motor cortex stimulation for head and face pain.