Abstract
The scope of Pain Medicine can be defined along two axes: the conditions that cause chronic pain, and how to treat them. The Taxonomy of the International Association for the Study of Pain [1] lists the various conditions that give rise to chronic pain. These can be grouped into diagnosable visceral and vascular disorders, neurological and other disorders with a known pathology, and a miscellany of disorders whose pathology is elusive [2]. The latter group accounts for the majority of patients with chronic pain; and spinal pain (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar) is the most common and troublesome entity in …
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