Surgery for Spine Disease and Intractable Pain [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2020 Painful conditions, particularly due to head pain, spinal disease, and neuropathic pain, are highly prevalent in modern society, resulting in a significant impact on the individual due to the disability of the condition and the direct cost of associated ...
Warren Boling
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Intractable pain due to thoracic outlet syndrome successfully treated with percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis: A case report [PDF]
SAGE Open Medical Case ReportsThoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is characterized by intractable cervicobrachial pain caused by strangulation of the brachial plexus and subclavian artery by structures of the superior thoracic outlet.
Yusuke Ishida +7 more
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Co-Occurrence of SCN9A and PRRT2 Variants in a Patient With Paroxysmal Extreme Pain Disorder, Contradictory Analgesia, and Intractable Paroxysmal Non-Kinesigenic Dyskinesia [PDF]
Case Reports in MedicineGain-of-function mutations in SCN9A, encoding the voltage-dependent Nav1.7 sodium channel, cause three autosomal-dominant disorders associated with severe pain: primary erythromelalgia, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder (PEPD), and small fiber neuropathy.
Miki Ikeda +17 more
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Palliative Treatment of Intractable Cancer Pain
Acta Clinica Croatica, 2022 In 10% to 30% cancer-pain cases standard analgesic therapy fails to provide effective pain relief. Interventional techniques, such as peripheral nerve blocks, neuraxial analgesia along with neurolytic blocks may be used for such refractory pain ...
Lidija Fumić Dunkić +2 more
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Ultrasound diagnosis and treatment of intractable anterior chest pain from golf - A case report – [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2023 Background Pleurisy is an inflammation of the parietal pleura and is characterized by pleuritic pain. The most common cause of pleurisy is infection; other causes include rheumatoid arthritis, malignancy, rib fractures, or trauma.
Jihye Park +4 more
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Neurostimulation for Intractable Chronic Pain
Brain Sciences, 2019 The field of neuromodulation has seen unprecedented growth over the course of the last decade with novel waveforms, hardware advancements, and novel chronic pain indications.
Timothy R. Deer +3 more
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Anterior cingulotomy for intractable pain
Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2016 Conservative therapy is often the first-line treatment for many symptoms of various disease processes, including pain. Nevertheless, if pharmacological or medical management fails for those patients with severe and chronic pain, a surgical strategy may ...
Nitin Agarwal, MD +4 more
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Pulsed radiofrequency on dorsal root ganglia for chronic pain
Brazilian Neurosurgery, 2013 Objective: Evaluate clinical outcome of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment in neuropathic pain of patients with radiculopathy regarding improvement of pain and degree of patients’ satisfaction.
Luis Fernando Moura da Silva Junior +5 more
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Perspectives on emotional memory images and the persistence of pain
Frontiers in Pain Research, 2023 Multiple influences prevent recovery from pain. Our viewpoint is that non-conscious emotional memory images (EMIs) triggers outdated stress responses contributing to the intractability of pain.
Matt Hudson +2 more
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Repetitive single subarachnoid injections for trial administration of the intrathecal morphine pump in patients with intractable non-cancer pain -A case report- [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2011 Since the early 1980s, the implantable intrathecal drug pump (ITDP) has been used increasingly to manage chronic pain. Prior to making a decision to implant an ITDP, trial administration of the intrathecal (IT) drug should be performed to estimate the ...
Jae-Woo Lee +5 more
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