The Failed Spine addresses the complications of spine surgery and the treatment of patients with adverse surgical outcomes while offering guidelines on patient selection for surgery and identify psychosocial risk factors for chronic pain.
The Failed Spine includes:
- Discussions of failed spine fusion
- Postoperative scoliosis
- Postoperative flat back
- Postoperative infection
- Epidural fibrosis
- Complications resulting from implants and devices
Contents
Basics
- Psychosocial Factors and Surgical Outcomes
- Central Modulation of Pain
- The In Vivo Effects of Iatrogenic Injuries of the Spine on Intervertebral Motion and Biomechanics
Nature of the Failed Spine
- Lumbar Fusion: Looking for Failure
- Failed Medical Spine
- Failed Spinal Fusion
- Postoperative Scoliosis
- Postoperative Flat Back
- Misuse of Implants and Devices in Spinal Surgery
- Delayed Infections After Posterior Arthrodesis of the Spine for Idiopathic Scoliosis
- How Important Is Postoperative Infection in the Spine and What are the Available Therapeutic Options?
- Epidural Fibrosis in the Failed Spine
- The Failed Perfect Surgery
Assessment
- Imaging of the Failed Spine
- Behavioral Aspects of Chronic Back Pain: Contemporary Approaches to Conceptualization and Treatment
Prevention—Failed Indication
- Patient Selection for Surgery
- Yellow Flags: Psychosocial Risk Factors for Chronic Pain and Disability
Medical Treatment
- Physical Therapy, Reconditioning, and Learning How to Move Again
Invasive Treatment Modalities
- Radiofrequency Procedures: An Update
- Spinal Cord Stimulation for Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: Technique, Results, and Cost Effectiveness
- A Review of Epiduroscopy and Its Results in Chronic Low Back Pain
- Revision Lumbar Fusion
- Treatment Algorithm for the Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
- Mechanical Supplementation by Dynamic Fixation in Degenerative Intervertebral Lumbar Segments: The Wallis System
- Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Is the Sydrome of the Failed Back Surgeon!
Economic and Ethical Considerations in the Management of Failed Spine
- The Failed System
- Costs and Effects of Radiofrequency Techniques Integrated in a Multidisciplinary Approach to Low Back Pain
- Central Registration of Complications: Spine Tango—A European Spine Registry
Index
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