Sacroiliac Joint Pain A Comprehensive Guide to Interventional and Surgical Procedures

Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH is the Medical Director of UW Health Pain Services. An accomplished academic, he has published about 200 peer reviewed manuscripts and edited 10 books. He serves on the editorial board of several journals and as the editor in chief for Pain Medicine Case Reports Journal.
Dr. Abd-Elsayed has presented more than 200 presentations on the national and international level. His duties also extend to serving as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a member of the board of directors of various societies including but not limited to ASIPP, ASRA,
NANS, ASPN, and ASA.

Dawood Sayed, MD is the First President and Co-founder of the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience. He is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Kansas Hospital and serves as the Chief of Pain medicine at the University. He established and now serves as the Program
Director of The Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine Fellowship at the University of Kansas. Additionally, Dr. Sayed serves as the Medical Director of Interventional Pain at the University of Kansas Comprehensive Spine Center and as the Director of the Center of Neuromodulation at the University of
Kansas Hospital. As teaching faculty, he lectures for the ASIPP, NANS, ASRA, and ASA. His clinical interests include spinal cord stimulation, peripheral nerve stimulation, implanted intrathecal drug delivery, vertebral augmentation, cancer related pain, spinal tumor ablation, and minimally invasive
spine surgery. He has lectured nationally and internationally on advanced interventional techniques for chronic pain. Dr. Sayed has published extensively in the fields of neuromodulation, interventional spine, and cancer related pain.

Preface
Contributors List

Part I: Sacroiliac joint
Chapter 1: Anatomy of the sacroiliac joint
Mark N. Malinowski, Anshuman Raj Swain, and Chong H. Kim
Chapter 2: Sacroiliac joint conditions
A. Raj Swain, Chong H. Kim, and Mark N. Malinowski
Chapter 3: Diagnostic evaluation of sacroiliac disease
Nicholas C. Canzanello and Jonathan M. Hagedorn
Chapter 4: Disability associated with sacroiliac joint diseases
Lisa Ramirez Kroopf, Kemly Philip, Michelle Nguyen Dang, and Samara Shipon
Chapter 5: Types of anesthesia for different sacroiliac joint interventions
Behnum A. Habibi, Mark N. Malinowski, and Chong H. Kim

Part II: Sacroiliac joint interventions
Chapter 6: Intraarticular injections (ultrasound-guided and fluoroscopic-guided approaches)
Luay Mrad, Akshat Gargya, and Rany T. Abdallah
Chapter 7: Lateral branch blocks
Benjamin K. Homra, Yashar Eshraghi, and Maged Guirguis
Chapter 8: Radiofrequency ablation of the sacroiliac joint
Haider M. Ali, Yashar Eshraghi, and Maged Guirguis

Part III: Role of regenerative medicine
Chapter 9: Regenerative medicine therapies for sacroiliac joint disease
Natalie H. Strand, Jillian Maloney, and Christine L. Hunt
Chapter 10: Imaging techniques for sacroiliac joint injections
Jacqueline Weisbein

Part IV: Peripheral nerve stimulation for the sacroiliac joint
Chapter 11: Patient selection and instruments used for peripheral nerve stimulation of the sacroiliac joint
Jessica Jameson
Chapter 12: Preoperative considerations for peripheral nerve stimulation of the sacroiliac joint
Ajay B. Antony
Chapter 13: Peripheral nerve stimulation trial and implantation
Kris Ferguson and Alaa Abd-Elsayed
Chapter 14: Outcome measures and outcomes of peripheral nerve stimulation of the sacroiliac joint
Hunter Hoopes and Mayank Gupta
Chapter 15: Complications of peripheral nerve stimulation for sacroiliac pain
Meghan Cantlon Hughes and Alaa Abd-Elsayed

Part V: Surgical fusion for the sacroiliac joint
Chapter 16: Patient selection
Sarafina Kankam, Gregory Lawson Smith, and Johnathan Goree
Chapter 17: Surgical instrumentation
Nomen Azeem
Chapter 18: Preoperative considerations
Kenneth Fiala, Joshua Martens, and Alaa Abd-Elsayed
Chapter 19: Lateral fusion
Gustaf Van Acker, Jonathon Belding, and Chong H. Kim
Chapter 20: Posterior fusion
Cory Ullger, Mogana V. Jayakumar, and Navdeep Jassal
Chapter 21: Postoperative care
Usman Latif, Tyler Concannon, and Andrew Frazier
Chapter 22: Complications and their management
Hemant Kalia
Chapter 23: What if fusion fails?
Hemant Kalia

Index