Jay S. Grider

TL;DR: High-level evidence supports SCS for treating chronic pain and complex regional pain syndrome, and for patients with failed back surgery syndrome, SCS was more effective than reoperation or medical management.

TL;DR: The authors request that the FDA modify the warning based on the evidence, and show the efficacy of epidural injections, with or without steroids, in a multitude of spinal ailments utilizing caudal, cervical, thoracic, and lumbar interlaminar approaches as well as Lumbar transforaminal epidural injection approaches.

TL;DR: The methodology utilized included the development of objectives and key questions with utilization of trustworthy standards, with a best evidence synthesis of available literature and utilizing grading for recommendations to provide evidence-based guidance in performing diagnostic and therapeutic facet joint interventions.

TL;DR: This study found that thoracic epidural analgesia (TEA with bupivacaine and a hydrophilic opioid, hydromorphone, may provide enhanced analgesia over TEA or continuous paravertebral infusion (CPI) with bucaine alone and that CPI of local anesthetic appears to provide acceptable analgesia for post-thoracotomy pain.

TL;DR: Lumbar spinal stenosis has traditionally been treated with a variety of conservative and invasive options, but recently, several minimally invasive procedures have expanded the treatment options.