Publications by authors named "Nolan Gall"
Objective: Determine the effectiveness of systemic steroids for the treatment of cervical radicular pain.
Data Sources: We identified articles from two electronic databases (PubMed and Ovid Medline) and previously known articles.
Study Selection: We combined (using the Boolean Operator "AND") the following search terms: "Steroid* and Cervical Radic*" or "Steroid* and Cervicobrachialgia".
Background: Many patients who receive lumbosacral transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESIs) are referred for the injection from a physician who does not perform the procedure.
Purpose: To compare success rates of fluoroscopically guided lumbosacral TFESIs in patients who had a clinical evaluation and recommendation for the injection by a fellowship-trained spine specialist who routinely performs ESIs (Group A), vs those who had a clinical evaluation by a fellowship-trained spine specialist who referred the patient for the procedure to be done by a different physician (Group B).
Study Design/setting: Retrospective, observational, in vivo study of consecutive patients.
Background: Several studies have compared outcomes from lumbar epidural steroid injections (ESIs) based upon technique (transforaminal (TF) vs interlaminar (IL) vs caudal). However, little on this topic has been reported in the cervical spine, and results have been conflicting.
Purpose: To compare success rates of fluoroscopically-guided cervical TFESIs vs ILESIs.
Background: Few studies have evaluated the effect of final needle position on contrast flow patterns during the performance of cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESIs).
Objective: To analyze fluoroscopically guided cervical TFESI contrast flow patterns based upon final needle tip position.
Design: Retrospective, observational in vivo study.
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a requirement for all physicians for value-based reporting. Medicare has approved registries as a mechanism for MIPS reporting. Concurrently, residencies continue to abide by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME's) curriculum requirement of utilizing/practicing quality improvement (QI).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cancer rehabilitation medicine is a growing field in physiatry, but more studies are needed to demonstrate how physiatry can contribute to patient care within the cancer care continuum.
Objective: To quantify and describe physiatric participation during a multidisciplinary tumor board for breast cancer patients.
Design: A prospective descriptive study.