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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine is a very useful test, which without the patient received radiation, gives us much information about the condition of vertebrae, intervertebral discs, nerve roots, the height of the intervertebral spaces and the zygoapophyseal joints. But still remains an image that describes morphological anatomical details of the spine, without [...]

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ANATOMY The pain signals from visceral organs of the upper abdomen (pancreas, liver, spleen, gall bladder, stomach, small intestine, kidney, adrenal gland) are transferred to the spinal cord and from there to the brain via the splanchnic nerves. The splanchnic nerves are three, the greater, the minor and the least, emerging from the roots of [...]

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GENERAL Entrapment neuropathy is caused by the prolonged compression or irritation of a nerve plexus or peripheral nerve. The final result is nerve dysfunction and chronic neuropathic pain in the innervation area of the affected nerve. In certain body positions, nerves tend to be compressed by surrounding tissues -not only under pathological but also under [...]

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CAUSES Meralgia Paraesthetica is the condition where the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is compressed by the inguinal ligament, due to obesity, pregnancy or belt worn too tight around the waist. ANATOMY The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is part of the lumbar plexus and is formed by branches of the 2nd and 3rd lumbar spinal nerve [...]

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GENERAL Disc Degenerative Disease (DDD) is the distortion of the interior architecture of an intervertebral disc, not necessarily because of disc protrusion and with no clinical signs of nerve root compression. It is estimated that approximately 40% of patients suffering from chronic low back pain are due to intervertebral disc degeneration. (3,4) ANATOMY Intervertebral discs [...]

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GENERAL Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a chronic syndrome of neuropathic pain affecting the facial area. It is considered to be the most excruciating pain probably due to the fact that the facial region has a very dense distribution of sensory nerve endings per square centimeter. The pain is so severe that it affects significantly even [...]

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Cervical Spondylarthritis

GENERAL

Just like in the low back, so in the neck, the spinal joints (zygoapophycial joints) over time, degenerate and eventually suffer from osteoarthritis. This condition is called by some as cervical spondylosis and others, as known in common, cervical syndrome.

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Non surgical treatment of a herniated disc

DISCOGEL is an intradiscal injection treatment which offers quick relief from pain. Sciatica is a very common condition in people of all ages with prolapsed or herniated intervertebral disc in the lumbar spine. Except in very rare cases where the neurological picture (progressive and worsening loss of muscle strength and / or loss of urine and feces or emerging impairment of urination or defecation)

Splanchnic Nerves Block /Lesion

ANATOMY The pain signals from visceral organs of the upper abdomen (pancreas, liver, spleen, gall bladder, stomach, small intestine, kidney, adrenal gland) are transferred to the spinal cord and from there to the brain via the splanchnic nerves. The splanchnic nerves are three, the greater, the minor and the least, emerging from the roots of the thoracic spinal nerves, are located bilaterally in the thoracic spine. At the levels of the 1

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Additional Research Shows Low-Dose Naltrexone Reduces Fibromyalgia Pain

Written by Karen Lee Richards 12584 Thu, March 08, 2012 In April 2009 I told you about a pilot study in which low-dose naltrexone (LDN) showed great promise as a fibromyalgia treatment. In that study

Pain. When the Symptom Becomes a Disease.

Reissue of interview with Mr Dimitris Papadopoulos in VITALITY magazine 22/1/2011 Mr Dimitris Papadopoulos is Pain Physician - Anaesthesiologist, Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, Member of the World Institute of Pain (WIP), Head of the Interventional Pain Treatment Institute at the Interbalcan Medical Centre in Thessaloniki. According to the American Academy of

Low Back Pain

Dr. Charles A. Gauci MD FRCA FIPP FFPMRCA Consultant in Pain Medicine, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, UK Member of Executive Board & Hon. Secretary-elect of the World Institute of Pain Low Back Pain[1]