BACKGROUND: Spinal pain is a pervasive global health issue that poses significant challenges because of the disability and economic burden it causes. Despite the availability of various treatments for the condition, a definitive cure for spinal pain ...
BACKGROUND: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is defined as spontaneous pain in the region of the trigeminal nerve that seriously affects a patient's quality of life. Percutaneous balloon compression of the trigeminal ganglion is a simple and reproducible su...
BACKGROUND: Regional anesthetic nerve blocks are widely used in the treatment of pain after outpatient surgery to reduce opioid consumption. Erector spinae plane (ESP) block is a recently described technique with promising results in different scenar...
BACKGROUND: Transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESI) are widely used to alleviate lumbosacral radicular pain. Knowledge of the therapeutic outcomes of TFESI allows clinicians to elucidate therapeutic plans for managing lumbosacral radicular...
BACKGROUND: Pain costs more than $600 billion annually and affects more than 100 million Americans, but is still a poorly understood problem and one for which there is very often limited effective treatment. Electronic health records (EHRs) are the o...
BACKGROUND: Traditional pain assessment methods have significant limitations due to the high variability in patient reported pain scores and perception of pain by different individuals. There is a need for generalized and automatic pain detection and...
BACKGROUND: Despite percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) being widely used to treat osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs), the details of puncture are still controversial. With the development of surgical robots in spine surgery, robotic-ass...
BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS-TLIF) and percutaneous endoscopic TLIF (PE-TILF) have been widely used in spine surgery. The use of a robot-guided technique provided several advantages; however, few studies ...