Interventional Pain Management: Current Evidence and Innovative Advances

Dear Colleagues,

Chronic pain remains a leading cause of disability worldwide and represents a major clinical and socioeconomic challenge. As healthcare systems increasingly prioritize opioid sparing treatments, value-based care, and minimally invasive therapies, interventional pain management serves as a critical component of modern treatment strategies. Advances in imaging guidance, neuromodulation, and data-driven practice models are rapidly transforming the field. At the same time, clinicians face challenges related to the standardization of techniques and variability in evidence quality.

Interventional pain medicine is evolving beyond traditional injection-based procedures toward a more technology-integrated, multidisciplinary model. Innovations in spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, peripheral nerve interventions, minimally invasive spine techniques, and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools in medicine are expanding therapeutic possibilities. Simultaneously, there is a growing need for high-quality clinical research to ensure the safe implementation and reproducibility of therapies.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to interventional pain management by highlighting current evidence and innovations. We welcome original research and systematic reviews addressing contemporary developments in pain medicine.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Image-guided injection techniques and interventional pain procedures;
• Technical advancements and procedural techniques in interventional pain;
• Physician perspectives and clinical decision-making in interventional pain practice;
• Neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation);
• Peripheral nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablation;
• Minimally invasive interventions for spinal stenosis and degenerative spine disease;
• Artificial intelligence and technological integration in pain practice;
• Standardization, quality improvement, and outcome measures in interventional pain;
• Clinical development in pain medicine.

Through this Special Issue, we aim to advance clinical practice, foster innovation, and support global collaboration in the evolving field of interventional pain management.

Dr. Jamal Hasoon
Guest Editor

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