Articles Posted in 2012

  • Societal Impact of Pain (SIP) “Pain in Europe VII” – 7th EFIC® Congress

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

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  • The Face of Pain

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

  • Cervical Spondylarthritis

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

    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. SYMPTOMS Cervical spondylarthritis  is a chronic spine degenerative disease , causing morning stiffness and pain […]

  • Additional Research Shows Low-Dose Naltrexone Reduces Fibromyalgia Pain

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

    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, all 10 of the participants reported a reduction in fibromyalgia symptoms, with 60% of them experiencing more than a 30% […]

  • When Should I have MRI For My Low Back Pain?

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

    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 […]

  • Non surgical treatment of a herniated disc

    by E-ALGOS Co-Authors Team

    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 […]

  • Splanchnic Nerves Block /Lesion

    by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP)

    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 […]