Chapter 2 Current Understanding of Spinal Pain and the Nomenclature of Lumbar Disc Pathology Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Inn-Se Kim, MD, PhD Any structure to be deemed a cause of…
Chapter 1 Diagnosis and Treatment of Spinal Pain Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Daniel H. Kim, MD, FACS Classifications of spinal pain Low back pain (LBP) is defined as pain and…
Chapter 31 Percutaneous Translaminar Facet Pedicle Screw Fixation Chan-Shik Shim, MD, PhD, Jee-Soo Jang, MD, PhD, Sang-Ho Lee, MD, PhD Percutaneous translaminar facet pedicle screw fixation is a minimally invasive…
Chapter 33 Interspinous Spacers John H. Shim, MD, MBA, FACS, Jason S. Mazza, MSc, OPA-C, Daniel H. Kim, MD, FACS More than 2 million physician-related visits yearly can be attributed…
Chapter 37 Lateral Interbody Fusion Using the Xlif System Luiz M. Pimenta, MD, PhD, Carlos F. Arias, MD, Juliano Lhamby, MD, Leonardo Oliveira, BSc, Thomas Schaffa, MD, Etevaldo Coutinho, MD…
Chapter 28 Posterior Lumbar Foraminal Decompression Hansjoerg Franz Leu, MD Since the first publication by Hijikata and colleagues [1] in 1975 on purely percutaneous intradiscal lumbar disc decompression, several developments…
Chapter 9 Atlantooccipital and Atlantoaxial Joint Block for Cervicogenic Headache Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD, Seong-Wan Baik, MD, PhD Cervicogenic headache Cervicogenic headache is defined a unilateral headache defined by the…
13 Microelectrode Signal Analysis Techniques for Improved LocalizationJAMES MCNAMES This chapter reviews some of the most popular methods of extracellular neuronal signal analysis. Although these techniques are generally applicable to…
15 Target Selection Using Microelectrode RecordingKENNETH B. BAKER, NICHOLAS M. BOULIS, ALI R. REZAI, AND ERWIN B. MONTGOMERY, JR. Much of the background for microelectrode-aided target localization has been provided…
19 Correlation between Microelectrode Recording and Clinical Effects of High-Frequency Stimulation of the Subthalamic NucleusABDELHAMID BENAZZOUZ, ADNAN KOUDSIE, PIERRE POLLAK, AND ALIM-LOUIS BENABID The subthalamic nucleus is a small structure…
