Pain physician
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Metastatic spinal lesions are difficult-to-treat entities that are most commonly associated with pain and severely reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Within the last 5 to 10 years, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has emerged as an option in the palliative treatment of vertebral metastases. ⋯ Radiofrequency ablation, vertebral metastases, metastatic spinal lesions, pain, clinical effectiveness, safety, palliative pain treatment.
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Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) is widely used to treat osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs). The influence of timing (early vs. late) of PVP on the development of adjacent vertebral fractures (AVF) has rarely been discussed. ⋯ Percutaneous vertebroplasty, osteoporosis, osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture, adjacent vertebral fracture.
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Over-expression of spinal protein kinase Cγ(PKCγ) contributes to the induction of persistent bilateral hyperalgesia following inflammatory injury, yet the role of spinal PKCγ in short- and long-lasting pain behavior is poorly understood. ⋯ Formalin, spontaneous pain, mechanical hyperalgesia, protein kinase C gamma, KIG31-1, mice.
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The growth of interventional pain medicine in recent years has resulted in more procedures being carried out under fluoroscopic guidance. The proximity of the pain physician (PP) to ionization radiation (IR) potentially increases the risk of radiation exposure to the ocular region. A European directive has reduced the limits of occupational ocular dose 7.5-fold. ⋯ Ionizing radiation, ocular, radiation protection, pain medicine, interventional.