Articles: pain-management-methods.
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The lifetime prevalence of spinal pain has been reported as 54% to 80%, with as many as 60% of patients continuing to have chronic pain five years or longer after the initial episode. Spinal pain is associated with significant economic, societal, and health impact. Available evidence documents a wide degree of variance in the definition and the practice of interventional pain management. ⋯ These guidelines included the evaluation of evidence for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in managing chronic spinal pain and recommendations for managing spinal pain. However, these guidelines do not constitute inflexible treatment recommendations. These guidelines do not represent "a standard of care".
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Percutaneous epidural adhesiolysis and spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis are interventional pain management techniques that play an active role in managing chronic intractable low back pain. There have not been any systematic reviews performed on this subject. ⋯ The evidence of effectiveness of percutaneous adhesiolysis with administration of hypertonic sodium chloride administration, and spinal endoscopic adhesiolysis with epidural steroid administration in managing chronic, refractory low back and lower extremity pain of post lumbar laminectomy syndrome or epidural fibrosis was moderate to strong.
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Epidural steroid injections are commonly used for chronic spinal pain. However, there is no conclusive evidence regarding their effectiveness, and debate continues as to their value in managing chronic spinal pain. ⋯ The evidence for effectiveness of epidural injections in managing chronic spinal pain ranged from limited to strong.
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Introduction. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) and of the pars interna of Globus Pallidus (GPi) is used to improve parkinsonian symptoms and attenuate levodopa-induced motor complications in Parkinson's disease (PD) (DBS for PD study group, 2001). It is still not clear what the best anatomic structures to stimulate are or what the physiologic effects of DBS are. ⋯ Most patients remained were chronically treated with bilateral stimulation of both targets. Conclusion. We conclude that DBS of STN and GPi was effective, with most patients treated chronically with both targets stimulated.
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Spinal endoscopy is a useful tool for the management of intractable low back or radicular pain originating from post lumbar laminectomy syndrome, epidural scarring, or disc protrusions, and non-responsive to conservative modalities and other interventional techniques including fluoroscopically directed epidural steroid injections and percutaneous adhesiolysis. Spinal endoscopy requires that the caudal canal be entered via the sacral hiatus. ⋯ In such cases, the procedure is stopped because of the absence of an alternative approach to enter the epidural space with the spinal endoscope, resulting in non-availability of this treatment. This report describes a novel method of dealing with the problem of cartilaginous obstruction of the sacral hiatus, using a mini-surgical approach to decompress the hiatus, allowing access into the caudal canal.