Neuropathic Pain

What a longtime family practitioner in a state that authorizes medical aid in dying has learned through his own experience of the controversial practice.

The SPRINT endura and extensa are cleared for both chronic and acute pain including post-operative pain and post-traumatic pain.

The celebrity chef-turned-producer wants to champion healthcare access, both on the screen and in person. Where does he start?

If approved, the therapeutic will be the first in a new class of medicines.

Already tasked with a burdensome regimen of therapy for nerve damage, some patients may just be looking for simpler relief.

Results from a study published in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases this week suggest that the hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies, which has been assumed to be rare, might not be uncommon in the Korean population.

The ZTlido patch utilizes a 36-mg dose of lidocaine, compared to the 700-mg dose used by other available patches.

Different types of pain respond to different medications; so a collaborative team across the United States and United Kingdom looked at how the Chronic Pain Questionnaire (CPQ) can assist in making those important treatment decisions.

A recent study published in The Journal of Pain looked at the effect of marijuana treatment on neuropathic pain.

Researchers reported that reawakened astrocytes appear to be a key trigger for S1 cortex (the remote region of the brain that is not directly affected by spinal cord injury) circuit rewiring and may contribute to sustained neuropathic mechanical allodynia.

Study results confirm that anxiety and depression before surgery can significantly influence the amount of pain a patient feels after surgery, adding to the evidence that the subjective experience of pain is worth considering, both before and after a pain intervention.

While not currently covered under recently passed law new research has shown a potential need to help first responders from World Trade Center attack.

Study results suggest that lidocaine injection might be better than ischemic compression in treating chronic pelvic pain in women.

While it’s been observed that medical marijuana helps reduce intensity in painful conditions, the benefits may have some limitations.

Researchers say that patients using YouTube videos to obtain advice about their peripheral nerve pain are being misguided about half of the time.

Researchers plan study to assess whether intradiscal methylene blue injection (IMBI) could be effective in treating low back pain.

A recent study suggests that pain is inadequately treated in emergency departments, for a variety of reasons.

Pharmacologic approaches are still "the most widely used therapeutic options to ameliorate persistent pain," according to this overview from UpToDate. But with growing awareness of the potential negative outcomes associated with long-term opioid therapy, a newly discovered approach may be just what the doctor ordered.

An analysis in Canadian Family Physician casts further doubt on the ability of marijuana to provide pain relief for patients with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP). Yet, in an accompanying editorial in the same issue, Roger Ladouceur, MD, Associate Scientific Editor of CFP, suggests that pain management specialists continue to prescribe it.

Study results show that opioid overdoses appear to frequently occur in patients who are not chronic users with high prescribed doses of opioids, in contrast to the patient groups targeted by current opioid prescribing guidelines.

A new study suggests that pregabalin shows significantly greater improvements in pain-related interference of sleep relative to usual care in patients with chronic low back pain with accompanying neuropathic pain (CLBP-NeP).

Trigeminal neuralgia is often mistreated or under-treated. Even when treatment is appropriately delivered, there can be troublesome side effects and complications. Proper diagnosis and treatment typically involves coordination of care among neurologists, anaesthesiologists, dentists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists

With migraines more than twice as prevalent in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome as in those without, it is clear there is a link between carpal tunnel syndrome and migraine.

Chicago-based pain specialist Scott Glaser, MD, is on a crusade. He wants his colleagues to stop using an injection technique that paralyzed his own patient.

A recent study looked at the effect from injections of recombinant human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone to the painful and dysfunctional areas in patients with chronic lower back pain.