New IPM Issue

Read the new issue of Interventional Pain Medicine (IPM), the official journal of the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society.

Article publishing charges (APCs) are currently being waived – publish your research in a Gold Open Access journal indexed on PubMed Central.

Some of the articles included in the September 2025 issue:

• True AP imaging during lumbar medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy: Interobserver reliability
  
  
• Standalone anteroposterior contrast spread pattern is insufficient to distinguish lumbar epidural from extradural spread: A prospective study
  
  
• Rates of complications after cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections for patients with cervical radiculopathy utilizing a large national database

• Safety profile of cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections performed while maintaining anticoagulation, aspirin, or NSAIDs
  
  
• Assessment of real-world, prospective outcomes in patients treated with cervical radiofrequency ablation for chronic pain (RAPID)
  
  
• “Is this injection going to hurt?” Quantifying the pain experience during common lumbosacral spine injections
  
  
• A systematic review of evidence comparing spinal cord stimulation to sham or conservative medical management in the treatment of persistent spinal pain syndrome - Type 2
  
  
• Bone marrow concentrate intradiscal injection for chronic discogenic low back pain: A double-blind randomized sham-controlled trial
  
  
• FactFinders for patient safety: Do epidural steroid injections increase the risk of fracture or lumbar surgical site infection?
  
  
• Safety practices for interventional pain procedures: Disc access/provocation discography, vertebral augmentation, and neurostimulation procedures
  

Read the full issue here.