Spine Pain Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

This multi-faceted book provides readers with comprehensive guidance to spine pain care. Unique in structure, the contents integrate various specialties involved in spine pain care, thereby bringing in new prospective and expanding readership. 

This six part reference begins with a review on the epidemiology and economic impacts that present clinical and financial challenges for spine pain care. Part two then brings the reader into a review of the anatomy, pathophysiology, and etiology of spine pain. Subsequent parts then dive into clinical evaluation tactics, unique disease conditions and treatment options. Finally, the book closes with two chapters discussing the challenges of spine pain medicine and the potential future directions of the field.  

Written by experts in their respective fields, Spine Pain Care - A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a first-of-its-kind, barrier breaking work designed for allprofessionals involved in spine pain care, including physicians and nurses, as well as medical students, residents and fellows as a supplementary educational material.  

Jianren Mao, MD, PhD

Richard J. Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research

Harvard Medical School, Harvard University

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

USA