OncoTargets and Therapy Dovepress open access to scientific and medical research Open Access Full Text Article Review Neuropathic cancer pain:What we are dealing with? How to manage it? Ece Esin Suayib Yalcin Medical Oncology Department, Hacettepe University Cancer Institute, An...
Pain that occurs due to the damage to the nerves or other parts of the nervous system is known as Neuropathic pain. It could be a stabbing, or a shooting pain, or could be described as pins and needles. It may also affect the kind of sensations one is able to feel. 4. Nociceptive ...
Outcomes of epidural morphine treatment in cancer pain: nine years of clinical experience. J Pain Symptom Manage 1995; 10: 105–12 PubMed CAS Google Scholar Jensen TS. Mechanisms of neuropathic pain. In: Campbell JN, editor. Pain 1996 — an updated review. Seattle: IASP Press, 1996: 77...
How to Manage Pain in Patients with Renal Insufficiency or End-Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis?When assessing pain, assess both the severity of the pain (such as on an analogue scale, 0-10) and the characteristics of the pain. Pain is most commonly characterized as nociceptive, neuropathic...
Over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription pain medications are commonly used to help manage pain. However, they're often not effective by themselves and may have lingering side effects. Advanced nondrug treatments may improve your function and quality of life while relieving your pain. Many pe...
A user-friendly, evidence-based guide for patients about how to manage buttock and leg pain (which may or may not actually involve the sciatic nerve)Paul Ingraham • Dec 3, 2024 • 35m read If you mainly have low back pain, and not so much leg pain, please change articles: you ...
Objectives The field of pain psychology has taken significant steps forward during the last decades and the way we think about how to treat chronic pain has radically shifted from a biomedical perspective to a biopsychosocial model. This change in perspe
3. Lowers pain-related stress In today’s society, it’s common for people to experience inflammation, muscle strains, and both acute and chronic pain. People manage all these by taking medications from time to time. However, due to the negative impact of taking medications for a long time...
We explore the mechanisms of inflammatory and non-inflammatory pain in RA, recommend some clinical techniques to help differentiate them, and suggest a manage- ment approach that can be adapted to tackle multiple underly- ing pain aetiologies. What is Pain? Pain has been defined as "an ...
This procedure involves disruption of the spinothalamic tract, which sustains nociceptive pathways. After placement in the prone position, selection of the side to be operated on (contralateral to the pain), and dura exposure, microsurgery is used to section the anterolateral spinal cord quadrant prev...