This text is a comprehensive guide to the evaluation of patients with head and face pain. It is a resource for any physician or dentist to properly diagnosis and to learn the options for treating head and face pain, as well as know when to refer a patient to a specialist and how to identify which specialist is needed. It discusses the basic anatomy, etiology, and pathophysiology of head and face pain, classification guidelines for treatment, and clinical case examples. Additional chapters on nerve blocks, nerve stimulators, radiosurgery, microvascular decompression, Botox, and alternative and complementary medicine are also included. Diagnosis and Management of Head and Face Pain will be an invaluable resource for otolaryngologists, family physicians, oral surgeons, dentists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pain specialists, and patients who suffer from head and face pain.

"Pain Conditions of the Head and Face: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management" will provide a user-friendly guide on diagnosing and managing common head and facial pain conditions using new methods and therapies; these therapies can then be easily applied to clinical care. It has practical information for the clinician, reviewing epidemiology, presenting features, contributing mechanisms, and treatment algorithms of common pain conditions of the head and face. Focus will be given to aspects of disease that are novel and evolving, and all conditions will be discussed within the framework of the latest advances in research and patient care. Doctors seeking to ameliorate their patients' pain from such maladies as (among many others) neuropathic ocular pain, trigeminal neuralgia, herpetic neuralgia, temporomandibular disorders, burning mouth disorder and neuropathic ear pain will require no other book to identify their patients' illnesses and make sure they receive the care they need. "Pain Conditions of the Head and Face: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management" is a wide-ranging book that deserves a place on the shelves of professionals in many disciplines. - Reviews epidemiology and presenting features of head and facial pain conditions in a logical, comprehensive format - Discusses previously unknown processes that underlie head and facial pain conditions - Outlines a treatment algorithm for head and facial pain conditions based on these subtle mechanisms of disease

Thirty-seven actual patient cases contributed by leading headache specialists with detailed commentaries on diagnosis and treatment based on mechanisms of pain. Authors, Drs. Levin and Ward find that: "It is becoming increasingly clear that understanding the pathophysiological causes of pain in our patients holds the key to successful treatment." Each case is summarized with the key historical and clinical findings, forming the basis for discussion of over 20 categories of headache, facial and cervical pain?from the challenges in diagnosis, to treatment options, with thoughts on pathophysiology and prognosis. Chapters are organized on the basis of the Classification of Headache Disorders (ICDH-II)

Edited by internationally recognized pain experts, this book offers 73 clinically relevant cases, accompanied by discussion in a question-and-answer format.

From the Foreword, by Stewart J. Tepper, MD: “Dr. Samer Narouze was the first Pain Management anesthesiologist specialist in the US to become Board-certified in Headache Medicine by the United Council of Neurologic Subspecialists (UCNS). It is therefore fitting that he decided to put together a textbook on blocks, interventions, injections, and neuromodulation possibilities in this integrated interdisciplinary area of treatment for head and facial pain... “This constellation of authors and topics should offer a comprehensive roadmap for interventions to contemplate beyond conventional medications in both primary and secondary head and face pain disorders. The chapters are precise, concise, and immensely readable, and I am honored to have been offered the chance to introduce them and encourage my colleagues to read them.” This is the first book on interventional management of intractable, medically resistant head and face pain. It is edited and written by world-class leaders in headache medicine and features practical presentations of the entire spectrum of procedures, from simple to complex. Designed to help shorten the learning curve of practitioners who are beginning to use interventional headache procedures, it provides guidance in identifying patients who are appropriate candidates for this approach and includes a unique compilation of outcomes-based algorithms for different headache and face pain syndromes. Neurologists, anesthesiologists, pain physicians, physiatrists, neurosurgeons, and interventional radiologists are the intended audience.

Unique case-based guide to generating diagnostic possibilities based on the patients' symptoms. Invaluable for psychiatrists and neurologists.