2019 Annual Meeting Slides - From Molecules to Medicine: Emerging Spine Care
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View over 1,900 slides from presentations delivered at the Spine Intervention Society's 2019 Annual Meeting: From Molecules to Medicine: Emerging Spine Care.
From Science to Practice: Where We Are Headed
- Using Biology to Define Treatments for Low Back Pain
- Challenges Facing Intradiscal Biologics
Regenerative Medicine: Clinical Practice
- Historical Perspective and New Advances in Regenerative Medicine
- The Role of Platelet-rich Plasma (PRP) and Stem Cell Therapies for Spine Pain
- Ethics, Regulatory Issues, and the Future of Regenerative Therapies
Reporting Needle Tip Location During Fluoroscopic Epidural Access: A New Lexicon
Fluoroscopy: Image Interpretation and Novel Technologies
- Fluoroscopy-Cross Sectional Imaging Correlation
- Epidural Access: Technical Update and 3-D Comprehension
- Contrast Flow Patterns
- Frontiers in Fluoroscopy: Digital 3-D X-ray Imaging
A Critical Review of the Influential Papers of 2018
- Intraosseous Basivertebral Nerve Ablation for the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Prospective Randomized Double-blind Sham-controlled Multi-center Study
- Corticosteroid Injections Into Lumbar Facet Joints: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial
- Effectiveness of Lumbar Facet Joint Blocks and Predictive Value before Radiofrequency Denervation: The Facet Treatment Study (FACTS), a Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial
- Induced Lumbosacral Radicular Symptom Referral Patterns: A Descriptive Study
- Cervical Medial Branch Block Contrast Dispersal in Cadavers
- Posterior Innervation of Sacroiliac Joint: Implications and Denervation
- Prospective, Randomized, Sham-Control, Double-Blind, Crossover Trial of Subthreshold Spinal Cord Stimulation at Various Kilohertz Frequencies in Subjects Suffering From Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (SCS Frequency Study)
Coding Quick Hit: Modifiers
FactFinder: Risks of Precipitate Formation When Combining Corticosteroids with Local Anesthetic for Use During International Pain Procedures
Top Research Abstract Presentations
- Validity of Physical Exam Maneuvers in Diagnosis of Sacroiliac Joint Pathology: Are Physical Exams Worth the Time?
- The Natural History of Cervical Radiculopathy with Soft Disc Herniations and Osteophytes
- Patient-perceived Duration of Effect of Lidocaine and Bupivacaine Following Diagnostic Medial Branch Blocks: A Multicenter Study
Discogenic Pain
- Biacuplasty for Discogenic Low Back Pain
- Why I Wouldn't Recommend Biacuplasty for My Patients
- Dr. Desai's Rebuttal
- Provocation Discography: Are There Long Term Risks?
- Is Episodic Low Back Pain Discogenic?
- Imaging Correlates of Lumbar Discogenic Pain
- Basivertebral Nerve Ablation for Endplate Pain
Coding Quick Hit: Orphan Procedures and Regenerative Medicine Injections
FactFinder: Ultrasound Guidance for Intra-articular Sacroiliac Joint Injections
Lumbar Imaging: How it Guides Us - Part 1
Facet Joint Pain
- Lumbar Zygapophyseal Targeted Injectates
- Prognostic and Clinical Interpretation of MBB: Optimizing Outcomes
- Medial Branch Blocks: Diagnostic Validity and Optimizing Scientific Rigor
Coding Quick Hit: Billing for Facet Procedures
FactFinder: Anticoagulants and Antiplatelets for Lumbar Medial Branch Interventions
The Future of Molecular Treatments
- Improved Phenotyping to Facilitate Patient Selection for Spine Treatment
- A Dual Selective Analgesic Strategy
Sex and Gender Differences in Pain
- Sex Variations in Spine Anatomy and Biomechanics
- Gender and Sex Influence in the Clinical Treatment of Pain
Pearls from the Masters of Interventional Techniques
- Cervical Radiofrequency Neurotomy
- Technical Pearls for the Future: Planning is Everything
- This is Different: Would You Abort the Case?
Peripheral Nerve Entrapment
- Clinical Assessment of Patients with Peripheral Nerve Entrapments
- High-Frequency Ultrasound Evaluation of Peripheral Nerve and Focal Neuropathies
- Magnetic Resonance Neurography
Be the Voice in the Wilderness: Your Opportunities to Promote Safe, High Quality Care
- Combating Policies Restricting Coverage/Access to Procedures: What SIS is Doing
- Local and State Opportunities to Promote Safe, High-Quality Care
- What Individual Members Can Do: State/Regional Level
- National Advocacy
Research Abstract Podium Presentations
- Thoracic Zygapophysial Joint Thermal Neurotomy: An Additional Prospective Case Series in a Community Practice
- A Prospective Consecutive Case Series of High-Frequency 10kHz Spinal Stimulation for Chronic Pain in a Community Practice
- The Effectiveness of Fluoroscopically-guided Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection for the Treatment of Radicular Pain; A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Modification of the Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Approach Using the Superior Articular Process Angle Measurement on Axial MRI to Determine Appropriate Needle Angle Trajectory
- Incidence of "Vertebral Sheath Filling" During Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Injections
- The Effectiveness of Cervical Medial Branch Radiofrequency Neurotomy for Chronic Facetogenic Pain in Patients Selected Using a Practical Paradigm
- Pseudo-subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Gadolinium Extravasation Following Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection
- Comparison of 18F-FDG-PET/MRI and Clinical Findings for Assessment of Suspected Lumbar Facet Joint Pain: A Prospective Study to Characterize Candidate Non-Anatomic Imaging Biomarkers and Potential Impact on Management
Lumbar Imaging: How it Guides Us - Part 2
Emerging Spine Technologies
- The MIST Guidelines: The Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Consensus Group Guidelines for Minimally Invasive Spine Treatment
- Interspinous Process Decompression
- Endoscopic Decompression for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
- Percutaneous Decompressive Laminotomy