Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice

This book fills the gap in knowledge and patient care by showing spine surgeons how to integrate pain management techniques into their practice. The first of its kind, Integrating Pain Treatment into Your Spine Practice is in tune with current efforts by major neurosurgical and neuromodulation societies and leading manufacturers of neuromodulation equipment to educate spine surgeons on the management of their patients’ post-surgical pain.  

Designed as an all-in-one volume, this book explains how to identify candidates for pain treatment and when to refer them to specialists. It also presents “how-to” clinical information on approaches to managing pain, from the medical to the interventional  and provides practical business guidance on coding and reinforcement.  

Dr. Falowski is Director of Functional Neurosurgery at St. Lukes University Health Network in Bethlehem, PA with a practice involving spinal procedures, as well as neuromodulation. He trained in complex spinal procedures at Thomas Jefferson University, as well as completed a functional fellowship at Rush University. 

He is faculty of both Congress of Neurological Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons, as well as a board member of the CNS/AANS Pain Committee. He is on the board of directors for the North American Neuromodulation Society(NANS) as well as scientific program chair for the annual meetings.   

His major focus in society and industry revolves around education, integration of specialties, and practice management. He is the course director of the annual NANS spinal cord stimulation/neuromodulation workshop that is the largest international course available and brought to the forefront the integration of neuromodulation among various specialties including Pain, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. He also serves as course director for educational offerings across multiple surgical and pain societies including course director of the AANS workshop focusing on integrating pain therapies in spine practices.

Dr. Pope is the President of Summit Pain Alliance in Santa Rosa, California. He serves the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) board as a Director-at Large, membership committee chair, Advocacy Fellowship Co-chair, and is the Annual Meeting Co-Chair for the upcoming 20-17 meeting. He completed an Anesthesiology Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and went on Fellowship in Pain Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. 

Dr. Pope also serves faculty for the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA) as co chair for the Special Interest Group in Neuromodulation.  After fellowship, he served as a fellow to a member of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Sub-committee on Health and was the recipient of the first annual American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) Fellow’s Advocacy Grant.  Dr. Pope continues to be engaed with patient adovacy and access to pain care therapies, and served as a member of the West Virginia Pharmacy Board Advisory Panel of Controlled Substances and Opioid Prescribing and is currently the Secretary for the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (CASIPP). 

Dr. Pope’s focus is education, centered improving outcomes and safety. He is the course director for may pioneering training and educational programs, including a post fellowship mentorship program and developed the largest and most comprehensive Neuromodulation workshop through NANS. Additionally, he helped create training opportunities for physicians after completion of formal training fellowships. 

Dr. Pope is well published in peer-reviewed journals, authored many chapters, textbooks and atlases, while presenting at regional, national, and international meetings