Headache & Migraine Interventions Expert Witness
Dr. Urits co-edited Interventional Management of Migraines and Other Headache Disorders (Elsevier, 2024), a textbook on procedures used to treat chronic headache, and contributed chapters on botulinum toxin, cervical epidural steroid injections, cervical medial branch blocks, and supraorbital nerve stimulation. He reviews cases involving post-traumatic headache, occipital neuralgia, post-dural puncture headache, and complications of headache procedures.
Common issues
• Post-traumatic headache after motor vehicle collisions or traumatic brain injury
• Occipital and other nerve blocks, sphenopalatine ganglion blocks, botulinum toxin, radiofrequency ablation, and nerve stimulation: when indicated and what can go wrong
• Post-dural puncture headache after epidurals, spinal anesthesia, or device procedures
• Reasonableness and frequency of ongoing interventional headache treatment
Relevant publications by Dr. Urits
• Urits I, Hasoon JJ, eds. Interventional Management of Migraines and Other Headache Disorders. Elsevier; 2024 (book).
• Hasoon J, Urits I, et al. Interventional pain management for a patient with chronic post-traumatic headaches after a traumatic brain injury. Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther. 2021.
• Urits I, et al. A Review of the Recent Findings in Minimally Invasive Treatment Options for the Management of Occipital Neuralgia. Neurol Ther. 2020.
• Orhurhu V, …, Urits I, et al. Use of Radiofrequency Ablation for the Management of Headache: A Systematic Review. Pain Physician. 2021.
• Urits I, Viswanath O, Orhurhu V, Petro J, Cai V. Sphenopalatine ganglion block in combination with greater and lesser occipital nerve blocks for post dural puncture headache. J Clin Anesth. 2019.