Neuropathic Pain

FDA advisory committee votes against recommending approval for the first single-entity extended-release hydrocodone product.

Recently, a group calling itself Physicians for the Responsible Opioid Prescribing proposed several radical changes to the way we treat patients with chronic noncancer pain, calling for limits on the dose and duration of opioid treatment that would in effect deny these medications to the majority of patients now receiving them for noncancer pain.

Committee to vote on whether the efficacy, safety, and risk-benefit profile of Zohydro ER supports the approval of the NDA submitted by Zogenix.

News on opioid REMS, chronic pain apps, opioid safety in hospitals, and other developments in the field of pain management.

Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) may be afraid to volunteer information that helps clinicians accurately diagnose them.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy. Its definitive treatment is carpal tunnel release, the most common hand surgery in America, but nonsurgical management options are also available.

The best setting for the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy is primary care, where diabetes and its associated chronic pain can be managed as a single entity. The American Diabetes Association defines diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) as "the presence of symptoms and/or signs of peripheral nerve dysfunction in patients with diabetes after exclusion of other causes." Approximately 16% of diabetic patients will experience painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN).

Clinicians who treat patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) can select from a wide range of agents that have been shown to have some clinical efficacy, including topical analgesics such as the lidocaine patch.

The latest in clinical news for the detection and treatment of gout.

Study results show that patients suffering from diabetic peripheral neuropathy treated with tapentadol reported significant improvement in their pain.

The drug candidate KRN5500 produced statistically significant results in neuropathy clinical trial.

Basal joint arthritis of the thumb is sometimes misdiagnosed as CTS.

Paul J. Christo, MD provides an overview of the prevalence of pain in older adults while discussing physiological age-associated changes in pain processing.

Philip Getson, DO, takes an in-depth look at a condition that is as difficult to treat as it is to diagnose, tackling many myths about CRPS along the way.

For the first time, a study featured in The Journal of Pain examines the associations between pain quality and changes in patient functioning and quality of life, using carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers as study participants.

Patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy "might be able to engage in a graduated walking program under close supervision of a medical professional and thus prevent other life threatening illnesses."

New evidence-based guidelines have been issued by the American Academy of Neurology to test for distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DSP).