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Neuromodulation for Intractable Pain [PDF]

Brain Sciences, 2020
Over 7% of the Western population suffer from intractable pain and despite pharmacotherapy, many patients’ pain is refractory [...]
Alexander L. Green, Tipu Z. Aziz
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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, Phillip A. Choi, MD, Samuel S. Shin, MD, PhD, David R. Hansberry, PhD, Antonios Mammis, MD   +4 more
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Cordotomy for Intractable Cancer Pain: A Narrative Review.

Pain Physician, 2020
BACKGROUND Cordotomy is an invasive procedure for the management of intractable pain not controlled by conventional therapies, such as analgesics or nerve block.
S. Javed, A. Viswanathan, S. Abdi
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1-kHz high-frequency spinal cord stimulation alleviates chronic refractory pain after spinal cord injury: a case report

JA Clinical Reports, 2021
Background Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) frequently complain of intractable pain that is resistant to conservative treatments. Here, we report the successful application of 1-kHz high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in a patient with ...
Chiaki Yamada, Aiko Maeda, Katsuyuki Matsushita, Shoko Nakayama, Kazuhiro Shirozu, Ken Yamaura   +5 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, Vedran Hostić, Antonia Kustura   +2 more
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Diagnosis and treatment of intractable idiopathic orofacial pain with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Scientific Reports, 2023
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been reported to be associated with primary chronic pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia, migraine, and chronic low back pain.
Satoshi Kasahara, Kaori Takahashi, Ko Matsudaira, Naoko Sato, Ken-ichi Fukuda, Akira Toyofuku, Tatsuya Yoshikawa, Yuichi Kato, Shin-Ichi Niwa, Kanji Uchida   +9 more
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Genitofemoral neuralgia : adding to the burden of chronic vulvar pain [PDF]

, 2015
The vulva is a particularly common locus of chronic pain with neuropathic characteristics that occurs in women of any age, though most women with neuropathic type chronic vulvar pain will remain undiagnosed even following multiple physician visits. Here,
De Muynck, Martine, De Zutter, Eline, Verstraelen, Hans   +2 more
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Assessment of the effectiveness of head only and back-of-the-head electrical stunning of chickens [PDF]

, 2016
The study assesses the effectiveness of reversible head-only and back-of-the-head electrical stunning of chickens using 130–950 mA per bird at 50 Hz ...
A. H. Taylor, Cook C.J., FAWC, Gilbert K.V., Gregory N.G., Hoenderken R., N. G. Gregory, Raj A.B.M., Ringkamp M., Schütt-Abraham I., T. J. Gibson, Wormuth H.J.   +11 more
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Scrotodynia successfully treated with botulinum toxin [PDF]

Surgical & Cosmetic Dermatology
Scrotodynia, or genital dysesthesia, is characterized by chronic scrotal pain lasting at least 3 months, with no identifiable etiology despite thorough investigation.
Taciana Dal'Forno, Martina Souilljee Birck   +1 more
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Occipital nerve stimulation for headache disorders [PDF]

, 2010
Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) was originally described in the treatment of occipital neuralgia. However, the spectrum of possible indications has expanded in recent years to include primary headache disorders, such as migraine and cluster headaches ...
Bartsch, Thorsten, Paemeleire, Koen
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