MODULE I
Advanced Interventional Spine & Pain Medicine
Core focus: diagnosis, patient selection and advanced image-guided interventions.
Topics:
- Clinical assessment of spinal pain
- Functional spinal anatomy
- Pain mechanisms and neurobiology
- Imaging interpretation
- Patient selection
- Treatment algorithms
- Facet joint interventions
- Medial branch blocks
- Epidural procedures
- Selective nerve root blocks
- Sacroiliac interventions
- Ultrasound-guided procedures
- Radiofrequency techniques
- Advanced cervical and thoracic interventions
- Sympathetic interventions
- Neuromodulation
- Complication prevention and management