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Meralgia Paraesthetica
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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Cancer Pain
GENERAL Thirty per cent (30%) of cancer patients suffer from pain during the diagnostic phase and 65-85% experience severe pain in more advanced stages of the disease. According to Cleeland et al, 67% of patients treated for the disease in an outpatient setting experience pain which is undertreated and, as a result, they have a […]
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Disc Degenerative Disease
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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Trigeminal Neuralgia
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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Vertebral Compression Fracture
GENERAL Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are quite common in the population and are mainly due to osteoporosis. The problem is that almost 2/3 of these fractures remain undiagnosed and are attributed to pain caused by muscle spasms or spondyloarthritis related to ageing. They are more frequent in women after menopause, mainly in the more advanced ages, […]
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Facet Joint Syndrome
ANATOMY Joint is the meeting point of two or more bones. The joint allows the movement of bones. The bones of the spine are called vertebrae. Vertebrae are interconnected through facet joints, else known as zygoapophyseal joints or apophyseal joints. Every vertebra has two pairs of facet joints. The two processes (apophyses) sticking out of […]
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Cervical Spondylarthritis
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.SYMPTOMS
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)
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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
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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
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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]
