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Steroids have been widely used in many fields, including pain management. However, they have both beneficial and detrimental effects. The aim of this article was to review the characteristics of...
Using opioids as a component in the treatment of chronic noncancer pain, when other approaches have failed, and where the quality of life is poor due to the pain, is...
Radiofrequency thermocoagulation is used to create discrete thermal lesions in the neural pathway to interrupt the transmission of pain. It is not a panacea, but a valuable tool in the...
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic painful and disabling disease, and its diagnosis is very difficult. Many diagnostic criteria have been suggested. However, their diagnostic power has been...
Nerve block has been performing to diagnose or treat chronic pain. In addition, it is performed to estimate the result of permanent block with various techniques, such as alcohol, phenol...
Any therapy for herpes zoster should accelerate healing and remove the pain, as well as reduce complications, such as postherpetic neuralgia. It is important to effectively treat herpetic pain to...
According to the current International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) definition of neuropathic pain, these disorders are characterized by lesions or dysfunction of the nervous system that, under...
Antidepressant pharmacotherapy presents many challenges to clinicians dealing with patients suffering from chronic pain. Depression in patients with more pain is associated with pain complaints and greater impairments. Depression and...
Often, pain is felt in a part of a person's body that is considerably remote from the tissue causing the pain, which is called referred pain. Referred pain is an...
Thermography is a method of detecting physical problems by measuring invisible infrared rays radiating from the human body. Changes in temperature, due to superficial blood flow, detect painful or diseased...
Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome, which is characterized by widespread pain, unrefreshed sleep, a disturbed mood and fatigue. Until more is understood about fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome, the management...
Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a painful musculoskeletal condition produced by myofascial trigger points, which are locally tender when active, with the pain referred through specific patterns to other areas...
Prolotherapy refers to the type of medical intervention in musculoskeletal pain that causes a proliferation of collagen fibers, as with those found in ligaments and tendons, as well as a...
A percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy (PELD) through a posterolateral approach, is a representative minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) procedure. With a small skin incision, less traumatic sequelae to the muscles,...
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a common complication of herpes zoster, particularly in the elderly and people with severe symptoms and presentation. This reviews summarizes the published results of randomized trials...
Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is one of the most extensively investigated neuropathic pains. Much clinical and experimental evidence supports both peripheral and central pathophysiological mechanisms contributing to the pain of PHN....
RF treatment of spinal pain was initiated by Shealy, with its subsequent description for lesions of the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) by Uematsu. However, the high tip temperature (75degrees C)...