(Ebook) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Andrea M. Trescot (Editor) ISBN 9783319274805, 9783319274829, 3319274805, 3319274821

(Ebook) Peripheral Nerve Entrapments: Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Andrea M. Trescot (Editor) ISBN 9783319274805, 9783319274829, 3319274805, 3319274821

Peripheral nerve entrapments are a commonly overlooked cause of painful conditions, resultingin pain literally from the head to the toe. Even the astute clinician may not be aware of thesesyndromes, and entrapment of these often small nerves can lead to debilitating pain, mimicking“migraines,” cardiac disease, intra-abdominal pathology, “endometriosis,” complex regionalpain syndrome (CRPS), and “plantar fasciitis.” Knowledge of these entrapments can preventexpensive ineffective testing and treatment and can ideally avoid unnecessary pain andsuffering.This book is a culmination of many years of my personal clinical observations as well ascollaboration between many providers. Over the years, when I would lecture on peripheralnerve entrapments, I would be met with blank stares, or worse, derision. However, this lack ofknowledge is slowly changing. Fifteen years ago, when I would ask the audience to raise theirhand if they had ever even heard of the cluneal nerve, perhaps two or three hands would go up.Now, with the same question, sometimes a majority of the room will raise their hands.This book has been designed to be a guide as well as a reference. We chose pain patternimages that will hopefully trigger the clinician to think about peripheral nerve entrapment as acause of their patient’s pain, while at the same time providing the scholarly anatomicdescriptions of the nerve. We hope that this book will help you diagnose as well as treat yourpatients, using physical exam, differential diagnosis, medications, injections (landmarkguided,fl uoroscopic-guided, and ultrasound-guided), neurolytics, neuromodulation, andsurgery. Videos showing the physical exam and landmark-guided injections are included formost of the described nerves. We have also created an Index of Symptoms, so that a patientwho is complaining of an “ice pick in my eye” should lead you to consider the greater occipitalnerve as a possible etiology.