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Interventional Management of Migraines and Other Headache Disorders

  • 1st Edition - November 30, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ivan Urits, Jamal Hasoon
  • Language: English

Interventional Management of Migraines and Other Headache Disorders provides a comprehensive overview of interventional treatment options available for migraine headaches and ot… Read more

Description

Interventional Management of Migraines and Other Headache Disorders provides a comprehensive overview of interventional treatment options available for migraine headaches and other headache disorders, including their mechanisms of action, indications, contraindications, and efficacy. It covers the fundamental principles of interventional procedures, including patient selection, preparation, and monitoring during and after treatment. This book offers practical instructions to clinicians and healthcare professionals for the selection, administration, and evaluation of interventional treatments for headaches. Further, it addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of migraine management, including collaboration between neurologists, pain specialists, anesthesiologists, and other professionals involved in patient care.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive overview of interventional treatment options available for migraines and other headache disorders, including their mechanisms of action, indications, contraindications, and efficacy
  • Covers the fundamental principles of interventional procedures and provides detailed guidance on the techniques and tools used for different interventional treatments
  • Offers a practical guide for clinicians and healthcare professionals in the selection, administration, and evaluation of interventional treatments for headaches, helping to optimize patient outcomes and improve quality of life

Readership

Clinicians who treat patients who suffer from chronic migraines. Its goal is to provide a fundamental understanding of the interventional approaches that can be used for the treatment of chronic migraines. It is unique in that it specifically discusses non-pharmacological approaches to manage migraine headaches as opposed to medication management, Medical students, nursing students, nurse practitioners The book can be marketed to pain management fellowship programs and neurology residency and fellowship programs amongst other specialties

Table of contents

  1. Introduction to migraine: Current concepts, definitions, and diagnosis
  2. Botulinum toxin injection for migraines and other headache disorders
  3. Occipital nerve blocks for headaches
  4. Trigger point injections
  5. Sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) block
  6. Cervical epidural steroid injections for the treatment of migraines and headaches
  7. Cervical medial branch and facet joint injections
  8. Cervical radiofrequency ablation-Cervicogenic headaches
  9. Occipital nerve radiofrequency ablation
  10. Occipital nerve stimulation
  11. Supraorbital nerve stimulation
  12. Vagal nerve stimulation
  13. Spinal cord stimulation for migraine headaches
  14. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
  15. Infusion therapies: Lidocaine, ketamine, magnesium, dihydroergotamine

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 5, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Ivan Urits

Ivan Urits, MD is a double board-certified Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Medicine Physician practicing in Wareham, Massachusetts. Dr. Urits attended Boston College before earning his medical degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. After returning to the Boston area, Dr. Urits completed both his residency in anesthesia and fellowship in interventional pain medicine through Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Urits is a Clinical Instructor of Anesthesiology at LSU Health Sciences School of Medicine and is actively involved in research with medical students, residents, and fellows. He has clinical interests in minimally invasive procedures such as nerve ablation, decompression procedures, injection therapy, and implantable devices including spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, and intrathecal drug delivery. He currently has over 250 PubMed indexed research article publications and he serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious peer-reviewed journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Louisiana State University Health Sciences School of Medicine, USA

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Jamal Hasoon

Jamal Hasoon, MD is a double board-certified Physician in Anesthesiology and Pain Management. He graduated summa cum laude from Baylor University in Medical Humanities, completing medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and an anesthesiology residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed further advanced fellowship training at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in interventional pain management, being named Outstanding Pain Fellow of the Year. Besides practicing, Dr. Hasoon publishes extensively in peer-reviewed journals on topics including migraine headaches, pelvic pain, low back pain, peripheral nerve stimulation, and spinal cord stimulation therapy. His special interests include minimally invasive therapies for spinal stenosis, compression fractures, peripheral nerve stimulation and spinal cord stimulation. He is a member of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the North American Neuromodulation Society, the American Society of Anesthesiology, and the Texas Society of Anesthesiology.
Affiliations and expertise
UTHealth McGovern Medical School, USA

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