PUBLICATIONS 2010


"The role of glia and the immune system in the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain." Pain Practice 2010


PUBLICATIONS 2009


"The preliminary results of a comparative effectiveness evaluation of adhesiolysis and caudal epidural injections in managing chronic
low back pain secondary to spinal stenosis: a randomized, equivalence controlled trial." Pain Physician. 2009 Nov-Dec;12(6):E341-54.

"Evidence-based practice of lumbar epidural injections. Techniques in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management." Pain Physician
2009 Oct;13(4):281-287.

"Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain, ASIPP – IPM
Guidelines." Pain Physician. 2009 Jul-Aug;12(4):699-802.

"Comprehensive Review of Therapeutic Interventions in Managing Chronic Spinal Pain. EBM – Guidelines." Pain Physician. 2009 Jul-
Aug; 12(4):E123-98.

"Description of Documentation in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain. EBM – Guidelines." Pain Physician. 2009 Jul-Aug;12(4):
E199-224.

"
An Algorithmic Approach for Clinical Management of Chronic Spinal Pain. EBM – Guidelines." Pain Physician. 2009 Jul-Aug; 12(4):
E225-64.

"Automated percutaneous lumbar discectomy for the contained herniated lumbar disc: a systematic assessment of evidence." Pain
Physician
. 2009; 12:601-20

"Systematic review of percutaneous lumbar mechanical disc decompression utilizing Dekompressor." Pain Physician. 2009;12:589-99.

"Percutaneous lumbar laser disc decompression: a systematic review of current evidence." Pain Physician. 2009;12:573-88.

"A systematic review of mechanical lumbar disc decompression with nucleoplasty." Pain Physician. 2009;12:561-72.

"Effectiveness of spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis in post lumbar surgery syndrome: a systematic review." Pain Physician. 2009;12:419-
35.

"Citalopram enhances B cell numbers in a murine model of morphine-induced immunosuppression." Pain Practice. 2009;9:195-205.

"Systematic Review of the effectiveness of cervical epidurals in the management of chronic neck pain." Pain Physician. 2009;12:137-
157.

"Systematic review of percutaneous adhesiolysis and management of chronic low back pain in post lumbar surgery syndrome." Pain
Physician
. 2009;12:361-78

"Spinal cord stimulation for patients with failed back surgery syndrome: A systematic review." Pain Physician. 2009;12:379-97.

"Systematic review of the effectiveness of thermal annular procedures in treating discogenic low back pain." Pain Physician. 2009;12:
207-32

"Long-term opioid therapy."
Pain Practice. 2009;9:164.

"Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, and guidelines in interventional pain management: Part 3: systematic reviews and meta-
analyses of randomized trials." Pain Physician. 2009;12;35-72.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2008


"Reassessment of evidence synthesis of occupational medicine practice guidelines for interventional pain management. Health care
policy." Pain Physician. 2008;11:393-482.

"Corticosteroid induced psychosis in the pain management setting. Case report." Pain Physician. 2008;11:917-20.

"Opioid complications and side effects. Opioid Special Issue." Pain Physician. 2008;11:S105-20.

"Opioids in the management of chronic non-cancer pain: An update of American Society of the Interventional Pain Physicians’
guidelines." Opioid Special Issue. Pain Physician. 2008;S5-S62.

"Effectiveness of opioids in the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain." Opioid Special Issue. Pain Physician. 2008;11:S181-200.

"Spinal glial modulation of neuropathic pain using a spared nerve injury model in the mouse."
FASEB J. 2008

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2007


"Incidental diagnosis of intradural lumbar disc herniation during discography: A case report." Pain Practice. 2007;7:332-6.

"Images in Pain Practice: Intradiscal intravasation of contrast during a transforaminal epidural injection." Pain Practice. 2007;7:285-7.

"Systematic review of discography as a diagnostic test for spinal pain: An update." Pain Physician. 2007;10:147-64.

"Images in Pain Practice: Computed tomography-enhanced sphenopalatine ganglion blockade."
Pain Practice. 2007;7:44-6.

"Vertebroplasty." Am Soc Intervent Pain Phys Newsletter. 2007

"Evidence-based practice guidelines in the management of chronic spinal pain." Pain Physician. 2007;10:7-111.

"A case of spinal cord stimulation in Reynaud’s phenomenon: Can subthreshold sensory stimulation have an effect?"
Pain Physician.
2007;10:473-8.

"Author Response To: Request for additional pertinent information regarding 4 extremity stimulation coverage from C2 spinal cord
stimulation lead placement." Pain Physician. 2007;10

"Neuromodulation of the cervical spinal cord in the treatment of chronic intractable neck and upper extremity pain: A case series and
review of the literature." Pain Physician. 2007;10;305-11.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2006


"Images in Pain Practice: Morphine pump catheter rupture after percutaneous lithotripsy." Pain Practice. 2006;9:289-90.

"Images in Pain Practice: Vertebroplasty." Pain Practice. 2006;6:203-5

"Images in Pain Practice: Disc herniation and clinical radicular disparities." Pain Practice. 2006;6:135-8.

"Pulsed radiofrequency denervation for the treatment of sacroiliac joint syndrome." Pain Medicine. 2006;7:429-34.

"Neuromodulation of the occipital nerve in pain management." Tech Reg Anesth Pain Man. 2006;10:12-15

"Percutaneous cement injection into a created cavity for the treatment of vertebral body fracture: Preliminary results of a new
vertebroplasty technique." Clin J Pain. 2006;22:182-9.

"Epidurales Cervicales, como? donde?, cuando? Y porque? La controversia continua."
Revista de Anestesiologia de Argentina.
2006

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1993-2005


"Vertebroplasty." Tech Reg Anesth Pain Man. April 2005

"Epidural analgesia for cancer patient", J Cancer Pain Symp Pall. 2005;1

"Low back pain." Pain Practice. 2005;5:354-355.

"Neck and Shoulder Pain." Pain Practice. 2005;5:249-50.

"Anterior Cervical Approach for Stellate and T2/T3 Sympathetic Block: A Novel Technique." Pain Practice. 2005;5:244-248.

"Opioid therapy and immune suppression: A Review." Am J Ther. 2004;11:354-65.

"New Technique for Treatment of Vertebral body fracture: Initial experience with the cavity creation system." Pain Medicine. March
2004

"Letter to the editor: Two-handed mask ventilation of the difficult airway by a single individual." Anesthesiology. 1998;88:1134.

"Responses to reversal of neuromuscular blockade after coronary artery bypass surgery." Anesthesiology. 1996;85:A125.

"Is the 'old washboard-like' sign reliable in distinguishing tracheal from esophageal intubation?" Anesthesiology. 1995;83:A1090.

"Sampling errors during use of the Dryden disposable absorber circuit. Can they be prevented?" Anesthesiology. 1994;81:A585.

"Sampling errors in PETCO2 measurements during the use of Dryden disposable CO2 absorber circuit." Anesthesiology. 79:A561,
1993