Electric pain control

Thoughts about the frontispiece.- General Section.- Neurophysiological Basis.- Optimal Form of Therapy.- The Question of Energy.- Theories of Pain.- Pain and Weather.- Evaluation of Pain - Practical Procedure.- Pain Clinic.- Pain Projection, Segmental Access and Sclerotomes.- Indications.- Contraindication, Complications, Lack of Efficacy.- Special Section.- Sympathetic Nerves.- Superior Cervical Ganglion.- Stellate Ganglion.- Thoracic and Lumbar Sympathetic Chain.- Somatic Nerves.- Suboccipital, Greater and Lesser Occipital, Great Auricular and Third Occipital Nerves.- Trigeminal and Glossopharyngeal Nerves, Geniculate Ganglion (HUNT) and Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SLUDER).- Cervical Plexus and Brachial Plexus.- Suprascapular Nerve.- Phrenic Nerve.- Radial Nerve.- Median Nerve.- Ulnar Nerve.- Intercostal Nerves.- Lumbar Nerves.- Ilioinguinal and Genitofemoral Nerve.- Obturator Nerve.- Femoral Nerve.- Lateral Cutaneous Femoral Nerve.- Sciatic Nerve.- Peroneal Nerve.- Sacral Nerves.- Phantom Pain - Painful Scar.- Trigger Points and Myofascial Pain.- Joint Pain, Non-Pain-Associated States.- 1. Humero-Scapular Periarthropathy.- 2. Costen Syndrome.- 3. Radial and Ulnar Epicondylitis.- 4. Radial and Ulnar Styloiditis.- 5. Sterno-Costal and Costo-Chondral Pain.- 6. Sacro-Iliac Pain.- 7. Gonarthrosis.- 8. Morton's Neuralgia.- 9. Orbicularis Oculi Muscle Superior Levator Palpebrae Muscle.- 10. Facial Nerve.- 11. Superior Laryngeal Nerve.- 12. Insufficiency of the Rectal and Vesical Sphincter Muscles.- 13. Muscular Atrophy.- Additional Measures for Pain Control.- Final Remarks.- A. General history.- C. Scheme of radicular innervation of skin.- F. Pain and weather: notes for 1 month.- G. Sequence of examinations for vertigo with space to record results.- H. Detailed case history for pain in problem patients.- I. Example of scheme of skin innervation to allow physician to indicate position of electrodes.- J. Prevailing electrode positions marked on a segmental skin innervation scheme.- K. Sizes of three standard electrodes.- M. Headache questionaire.- N. Listing of symptoms of migraine.- Reference List.