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Interventional Procedures for Chronic and Neuropathic Pains

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Advances in Chronic and Neuropathic Pain

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Pain management is of growing importance in contemporary medical practice. In a comprehensive pain management, medical therapy, interventional therapy, and psychological therapy take up the most crucial parts. In this chapter, the principles of interventional pain management will be overviewed. Successful interventional pain management consists of 3 core factors: clever application of different modalities (e.g. different modes of radiofrequency), good manual technique with exquisite image guidance (ultrasound, fluoroscopy, CT or combination) and clinician’s clinical judgement skills. Of the 3 factors, different modalities for interventional application and principles for different image guiding tools will be reviewed in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Pain Management, Taichung TZu-Chi Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Donald Tsung-Yung Tang

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    Chih-Peng Lin

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Tang, D.TY., Lin, CP. (2022). Interventional Procedures for Chronic and Neuropathic Pains. In: de Castro, J., El Miedany, Y. (eds) Advances in Chronic and Neuropathic Pain. Contemporary Rheumatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10687-3_16

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