BACKGROUND Neuromodulation with spinal cord stimulation is a proven cost effective treatment for the management of common conditions such as chronic radicular leg pain from failed back surgery syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, and other painful neuropathic pain syndromes. The traditionally instructed method for percutaneous spinal cord stimulator (SCS) lead placement promotes the use of...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Injection therapies play a major role in the treatment of lower back pain and are to date performed mainly under CT or fluoroscopic guidance. The benefits of US-guided instillation procedures have been shown in many studies. We conducted this study to simplify an US-guided approach to the lumbar spinal nerves and to assess the feasibility and preliminary accuracy by means...

Interventional biopsy needles need to be accurately localized the target tissue during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) interventions. In this context, severe susceptibility artifacts affect visibility of structures in MR images depending on needle’s material composition. particular, standard for spinal cord made nickel-titanium alloys (NiTi) generate massive MRI. Consequently, does not allow p...

Lumbar interlaminar and transforaminal epidural injections are used in the treatment of lumbar radicular pain and other lumbar spinal pain syndromes. Complications from these procedures arise from needle placement and the administration of medication. Potential risks include infection, hematoma, intravascular injection of medication, direct nerve trauma, subdural injection of medication, air em...

To my parents, my sister, and to my wife Epidural anaesthesia is a form of medication injected through patients back into the epidural space of the spine. It is most commonly administered during childbirth and for pain relief following lower body surgery. The procedure involves insertion of a Tuohy needle and a catheter is guided through it into the epidural space 1. Anaesthesiologists insert t...

background: although a variety of methods have been suggested to reduce stress, anxiety and pain intensity due to spinal needle skin puncture, their adverse effects restrict theirs widespread administration. in this study we evaluated the effects of oral tizanidine on the reduction of pain caused by spinal needle puncture and hemodynamic responses. methods : in this double blind randomized clin...

OBJECTIVE The study was designed to compare the insertion characteristics and incidence of PDPH between 25 gauge Quincke needle and 26 gauge Eldor needle for spinal anaesthesia in elective c/s. METHOD 60 pregnant women (aged 19-35 yrs and weighing 58 -67 kg) undergoing elective caesarean section were randomized into group A (Quincke spinal needle group) or group B (Eldor spinal needle group)....