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• 1314 citations
  Opioid complications and side effects.
  Ramsin M Benyamin, Andrea M. Trescot, Sukdeb Datta, Ricardo M. Buenaventura, Rajive Adlaka
  Pain Physician. 2008-03-01
• 102 citations
  Effectiveness of long-term opioid therapy for chronic non-cancer pain.
  Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Ricardo Vallejo, Kavita N. Manchikanti, Ramsin M Benyamin, Sukdeb Datta
  Pain Physician. 2011-03-01
• 41 citations
  A critical review of the American Pain Society clinical practice guidelines for interventional techniques: part 1. Diagnostic interventions.
  Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Sukdeb Datta, Richard Derby, Lee R Wolfer, Ramsin M Benyamin
  Pain Physician. 2010-05-25

Journal Articles

• RE: Efficacy of Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin R, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA, Korean Journal of Radiology, 1/1/2015
• Epidural Ahesiolysis Provides Misinformation  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Helm li S, Hirsch JA, Pain Physician, 1/1/2015
• MiDAS ENCORE: Randomized Controlled Study Design and Protocol  
  Benyamin RM, Staats PS, Pain Physician, 1/1/2015
• Novel 10-kHz High Frequency Therapy (HF10 Therapy) is Superior to Traditional Low-frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Back and Leg Pain: The...  
  Kapural L, Yu C, Doust MW, Gilner BE, Vallejo R, Sitzman BT, Amirdelfan K, Morgan DM, Brown LL, Yearwood TL, Bundschu R, Burton AW, Yang T, Benyamin R, Burgher AH, Anesthesiology, 1/1/2015
• 188 Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Effectiveness of 10 kHz High-Frequency and Traditional Low-Frequency Stimulation for the Treatment o...  
  Kapural L, Yu C, Doust MW, Gilner BE, Vallejo R, Sitzman BT, Amirdelfan K, Morgan DM, Brown LL, Yearwood TL, Bundschu R, Burton A, Yang T, Benyamin R, Burgher AH, Neurosurgery, 1/1/2015
• Key Safety Considerations When Administering Epidural Steroid Injections  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Pain Management, 1/1/2015
• Comparison of the efficacy of saline, local anesthetics, and steroids in epidural and facet joint injections for the management of spinal pain: A systematic review of ...  
  Manchikanti L, Nampiaparampil DE, Manchikanti KN, Falco FJ, Singh V, Benyamin RM, Kaye AD, Sehgal N, Soin A, Simopoulos TT, Bakshi S, Gharibo CG, Gilligan CJ, Hirsch JA, Surgical Neurology International, 1/1/2015
• Inappropriate trial of cervical epidural injections  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA, Anesthesiology, 1/1/2015
• Do Epidural Injections Provide Short-and Long-term Relief for Lumbar Disc Herniation? A Systematic Review  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1/1/2015
• Letter to the Editor: Results of comprehensive medical management of lumbar disorders questioned  
  Manchikanti L, Candido KD, Benyamin RM, Hirsch JA, Journal of Neurosurgery Spine, 1/1/2015
• Analysis of efficacy differences between caudal and lumbar interlaminar epidural injections in chronic lumbar axial discogenic pain: local anesthetic alone vs local co...  
  Manchikanti L, Pampati V, Benyamin RM, Boswell MV, International Journal of Medical Sciences, 1/1/2015
• Do epidural injections provide short and long-term relief for lumbar disc herniation? A systematic review  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1/1/2014
• Reach Inappropriate Conclusions on the Effect of Sedation on the Accuracy and Treatment Outcomes for Diagnostic Injections  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Candido KD, Hirsch JA, Cohen et al, Pain Medicine, 1/1/2014
• Regarding: Kim et al In Response To "The Influence of Pain Sensitivity on The Treatment Outcome of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection In Patients with Lumbar Sp...  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Kaye AD, Yeom JS, Pain Practice, 1/1/2014
• Reach Inappropriate Conclusions on the Effect of Sedation on the Accuracy and Treatment Outcomes for Diagnostic Injections Letter to the Editor  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Candido KD, Hirsch JA. Cohen et al, Pain Medicine, 1/1/2014
• An ex vivo comparison of cooled-radiofrequency and bipolar-radiofrequency lesion size and the effect of injected fluids  
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Cedeno DL, Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 1/1/2014
• Assessment of methodological quality of randomized trials of interventional techniques: development of an interventional pain management specific instrument  
  Manchikanti L, Hirsch JA, Cohen SP, Heavner JE, Falco FJ, Diwan S, Boswell MV, Candido KD, Onyewu CO, Zhu J, Sehgal N, Kaye AD, Benyamin RM, Helm S 2nd, Singh V, Datta..., Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• Opioids in chronic noncancer pain: have we reached a boiling point yet?  
  Manchikanti L, Atluri S, Hansen H, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Helm Ii S, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA, Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• Declining value of work of interventional pain physicians  
  Manchikanti L, Hansen H, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA, Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• Anti-tumor necrosis factor antagonists in the treatment of low back pain and radiculopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis  
  Pimentel DC, El Abd O, Benyamin RM, Buehler AM, Leite VF, Mazloomdoost D, Chen J, Hsing WT, Amadera JE, Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• Anti-nerve growth factor in the treatment of low back pain and radiculopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis  
  Leite VF, Buehler AM, El Abd O, Benyamin RM, Pimentel DC, Chen J, Hsing WT, Mazloomdoost D, Amadera JE, Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• Regarding: Kim et al In Response To "The Influence of Pain Sensitivity on The Treatment Outcome of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection In Patients with Lumbar Sp...  
  Manchikanti L, Benyamin RM, Kaye AD, Yeom JS, Pain Practice, 1/1/2014
• Epidural steroid warning controversy still dogging FDA  
  Manchikanti L, Candido KD, Singh V, Gharibo CG, Boswell MV, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Grider JS, Diwan S, Hirsch JA, Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• Randomized trial of epidural injections for spinal stenosis published in the new England journal of medicine: further confusion without clarification  
  Manchikanti L, Candido KD, Kaye AD, Boswell MV, Benyamin RM, Falco FJ, Gharibo CG, Hirsch JA, Pain Physician, 1/1/2014
• An Update of Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain Part II: Guidance and Recommendations  
  Manchikanti L, Abdi S, Atluri S, Benyamin RM, Boswell MV, Buenaventura RM, Bryce DA, Burks PA, Caraway DL, Calodney AK, Cash KA, Christo PJ, Cohen SP, Vallejo, R, Pain Physician, 1/1/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

• Pain medicine & Management, Just the Facts 
  Chapter: Minimally Invasive Lumbar Disc Decompression. 
  Benyamin, RamsinEditors: Peter Staats and Mark Wallace.McGrawHill2015
• Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures 
  Chapter: Vertebral Augmentation. 
  Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Rehman A., Burton A.McGraw-Hill2014
• Principles of Neurophysiological Assessment, Mapping and Monitoring 
  Chapter: Spinal Cord Stimulation: Principles and Applications. 
  Benyamin R., Grider J., Vallejo R., Tilley D., and Kaye A.Editors: AD Kaye and SF Davis.Springer2014
• Medicina del Dolor. Perspectiva Internacional 
  Chapter: Vertebroplastia y Tecnicas de aumento vertebral. 
  Vallejo R, Benyamin REditors: Elsevier.2014
• Diwan-Staats' Atlas of Pain Medicine Procedures 
  Chapter: Vertebral Augmentation. 
  Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Rehman A., Burton A.Editors: S Diwan and PS Staats.McGrawHill2014
• Clinical Aspects of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine 
  Chapter: Neck and Cervical Radicular Pain 
  Manchikanti L., Falco F., Benyamin R.2011
• Foundations of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine 
  Chapter: Documentation for Evaluation and Management Services 
  Manchikant L., Benyamin R.2011
• Foundations of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine 
  Chapter: Neurophysiologic Basis and Diagnosis of Chronic Spinal Pain 
  Manchikant L., Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Hirsch J.2011
• Clinical Aspects of Interventional Pain Management and Pain Medicine 
  Chapter: Neck and Cervical Radicular Pain. 
  Manchikanti L., Falco F., Benyamin R.ASIPP2011
• Interventional Techniques in Chronic Non-Spinal Pain 
  Chapter: Peripheral Nerve Stimulation 
  Benyamin R., Vallejo R., Kramer J., Bounds D2009
• Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain 
  Chapter: Spinal Cord Stimulation 
  Vallejo R., Benyamin R., Kramer J., Bounds D2007
• Puesta al dia en Anestesia Regional y tratamiento del dolor 
  Chapter: Tecnicas de relleno de fracturas de cuerpos vertebrales. Indicaciones y seleccion de tecnicas. 
  Vallejo R, Benyamin REditors: De Andres J..2007
• Puesta al dia en Anestesia Regional y tratamiento del dolor 
  Chapter: Dolor sacroiliaco, tecnicas diagnosticas y posibilidades terapeuticas. 
  Vallejo R, Benyamin REditors: De Andres J..2007
• Puesta al dia en Anestesia Regional y tratamiento del dolor 
  Chapter: Dolor Cervico-toracico mantenido por el simpatico. Bases para la decision del nivel y metodologia. 
  Vallejo R, Benyamin REditors: De Andres J.2007
• Tecnicas Intervencionistas para manejo del dolor 
  Chapter: Discografia. 
  Vallejo R, Benyamin REditors: Torres Morera LM.2007
• Tecnicas Intervencionistas para manejo del dolor 
  Chapter: Tecnicas percutaneas de decompresion discal. 
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R2007
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Abstracts/Posters

• Defining remission from chronic pain: A literature review and results from a randomized controlled trial.
  Amirdelfan K, Kapural L, Yu C, Doust MW, Gliner BE, Vallejo R, Sitzman BT, Morgan DM, Brown LL, Yearwood TL, Bundschu R, Burton AW, Yang T, Benyamin R, Burgher AH, West Virginia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Miami Beach, FL, 1/1/2015
• The Dynamic Phosphoproteome of Peripheral Nerve Injury and Chronic Pain.
  Lietz CB, Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Williams J, Cedeno DL, Li L, 63rd American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, St. Louis, MO, 1/1/2015
• Optimization of Stimulation Location is Essential to Sub-perception SCS: results of a Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial.
  Miller N., Sebahar M., Vallejo R., Benyamin R., Lin S., Mekel-Bobrov N., North American Neuromodulation Society, 18th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2014
• Rationale for the SENZA-RCT Study Design and Comparative Outcomes.
  Sitzman BT, Kapural L, Yu C, Doust MW, Gliner BE, Vallejo R, Amirdelfan K, Morgan DM, Brown LL, Yearwood TL, Bundschu R, Burton AW, Yang T, Benyamin R, Burgher AH, 18th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2014
• Remission in Chronic Back Pain: A Novel Concept in Spinal Cord Stimulation Clinical Trial Results and Its Correlation to Functional Outcomes.
  Amirdelfan K, Kapural L, Yu C, Doust MW, Gliner BE, Vallejo R, Sitzman BT, Morgan DM, Brown LL, Yearwood TL, Bundschu R, Burton AW, Yang T, Benyamin R, Burgher AH, 18th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2014
• Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of 10 kHz High Frequency and Traditional Low Frequency Stimulation: Comparison of Treatment and Control Results to Published Studi...
  Burton AW, Kapural L, Yu C, Doust MW, Gliner BE, Vallejo R, Sitzman BT, Amirdelfan K, Morgan DM, Brown LL, Yearwood TL, Bundschu R, Yang T, Benyamin R, Burgher AH, 18th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2014
• First Preliminary Report of Spinal Cord Microrray Analysis in an Injury Model Undergoing Chronic SCS.
  Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Cedeno DL, Benyamin R, Vallejo R, 18th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2014
• Optimization of Stimulation Location is Essential to Sub-perception SCS: results of a Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial.
  Miller N., Sebahar M., Vallejo R., Benyamin R., Lin S., Mekel-Bobrov N., 18th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2014
• Ex Vivo Comparison of Lesions Created with Cooled Radiofrequency and Protruding Electrode Radiofrequency Probes?
  Vallejo R., Cedeño DL, Benyamin R., Tilley DM., Kelley CA., Vallejo R., Kumar N, 22nd Annual Napa Pain Conference, Napa, CA, 1/1/2014
• Pulse radiofrequency modulates the expression of regulatory genes along the nociceptive pathways.
  Vallejo R, Aliaga L, Benyamin R, Montesinos S, Ojeda A, Nebreda C, Orduna J, Spain Pain Society Meeting, 1/1/2014
• Ex Vivo Comparison of Lesions Created with Cooled Radiofrequency and Protruding Electrode Radiofrequency Probes?
  Vallejo R., Cedeno DL, Benyamin R., Tilley DM., Kelley CA., Vallejo R., Kumar N., Napa, CA, 1/1/2014
• A Pre-clinical Recovery Model for Continuous Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) Implant for a Peripheral Nerve Injury.
  Tilley DM, Kelley CA, Cedeno D, Benyamin R, Vallejo R, 17th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2013
• Reduction in Narcotic Pain Medications Correlated to Pain Relief and Patient Satisfaction Post-Vertebroplasty-Results from a Prospective, Randomized Controlled IDE Study.
  Benyamin R, 11th Annual Meeting of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington, DC, 1/1/2011
• Is Spinal Cord Stimulation an Effective Treatment Option for Discogenic Pain?
  Vallejo R, Zevallos LM, Lowe J, Benyamin RM, 14t Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2010
• Is Spinal Cord Stimulation an Effective Treatment Option for Discogenic Pain?
  Vallejo R, Zevallos LM, Lowe J, Benyamin RM, 14th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuromodulation Society, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2010
• Pulsed Radiofrequency Attenuates Cytokine Expression in the Spared Nerve Injury Model.
  Vallejo R, Tilley D, Vogel L, Benyamin R, American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA) Annual Pain Medicine Meeting and Workshops, San Antonio, TX, 1/1/2009
• Pulsed Radiofrequency Attenuates Cytokine Secretion in the Spared Nerve Injury Model.
  Tilley D, Handler C, Kramer J, Vogel L, Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Annual Autumn Immunology Conference, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2009
• Spinal glial modulation of neuropathic pain using a spare nerve ligation in mouse.
  Nguyen T, Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J, Vogel L, Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2008
• Phenol injections into the sacroiliac joint provide sustained relief in painful sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM, 11th Annual Meeting of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington, DC, 1/1/2008
• Treatment of Painful Sacral Fractures by Percutaneous Sacroplasty: A case series with technical perspectives.
  Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Kramer JM, 11th Annual Meeting of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Washington, DC, 1/1/2008
• Pulsed Radiofrequency neuromodulation of the c2 nerve root for the treatment of cervicogenic headache originating in the lateral atlantoaxial joint.
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM, 4t World Congress of the World Institute of Pain, Budapest, Hungary, 1/1/2007
• Sensory subthreshold stimulation maintains pain relief in spinal neuromodulation of Raynaud's phenomenon.
  Benyamin R, Vallejo R, Kramer, JM, North American Neuro-Modulation Society, 10th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2007
• Pulsed Radiofrequency neuromodulation of the c2 nerve root for the treatment of cervicogenic headache originating in the lateral atlantoaxial joint.
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM, 4th World Congress of the World Institute of Pain, Budapest, Hungary, 1/1/2007
• Spinal cord stimulation in the treatment of discogenic low back pain.
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer J, ASRA Annual Pain Medicine Meeting, Boca Raton, FL, 1/1/2007
• Chronic pain following neck surgery is effectively treated with cervical spinal cord stimulators: A case series.
  Vallejo R, Benyamin R, Kramer JM, North American Neuro-Modulation Society, 10th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 1/1/2006
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Lectures

• Does new spinal cord stimulation technology allow for better back coverage? What do studies say? 
  San Francisco, CA - 1/1/2014
• Spinal Cord Stimulation for Axial Low Back Pain: is it a viable option? 
  San Francisco, CA - 1/1/2014
• Vertebral Augmentation: Does it work? 
  Jersey City, NJ - 1/1/2014
• "Neuromodulation" 
  Rosemont, IL - 1/1/2014
• "Interventional procedures for Facet Disease" 
  Rosemont, IL - 1/1/2014
• What is so Cool about Radiofrequency? 
  Evansville, IN - 1/1/2014
• "Complications of Interventional Techniques" 
  Ranch Palos Verdes, CA - 1/1/2014
• "Complications of Interventional Techniques" (Cadaver course-Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2014
• "Sacroplasty" (Cadaver course-Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2014
• "Lumbar Sympathetic Blocks" 
  St. Louis, MO - 1/1/2014
• "State of Pain Management" 
  Orlando, FL - 1/1/2014
• "Hip and Knee Injections for Interventionalists" 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/1/2014
• Make Your Office "Lobby Central" 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/1/2014
• Diagnostic Facet Joint Nerve Blocks, 0%, 50%, 80%. 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/1/2014
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation "Bioness" 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2014
• "Cooled Radio Frequency for the Hip and Knee Pain" 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2014
• Posterior approach to cervical facet procedure. 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2014
• Interventional procedures for Facet Disease. 
  Rosemont, IL - 1/1/2014
• Make Your Office "Lobby Central". 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/1/2014
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulation "Bioness". 
  Las Vegas, NV - 1/1/2014
• The 15th Annual Pain Management Symposium 
  Cleveland Clinic - Cleveland, Ohio / The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Sarasota, Florida - 2/16/2013
• MILD: Lumbar Decompression for Spinal Stenosis. 
  Jersey City, NJ - 1/1/2013
• Electroanalgesia & Spinal Cord Stimulation. 
  St. Louis, MO - 1/1/2013
• "Interventional Techniques" 
  St. Louis, MO - 1/1/2013
• What's New in Cooled Radiofrequency? 
  Washington, DC - 1/1/2013
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Other

• Vertebroplasty. 
  Benyamin R, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Newsletter
  1/1/2007