Articles: neuralgia.
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Painful stump neuromas in lower limb amputees are a significant burden on a person's quality of life due to interference with wearing prostheses and therefore the ability to walk. Treating painful stump neuromas is a challenge perhaps reflected by the lack of clinical guidelines. ⋯ The 4 treatments that showed most promise included targeted nerve implantation, traction neurectomy, nerve-to-nerve anastomosis, and perineurial gluing. The short follow-up times and small sample sizes of the studies highlighted the need for more robust clinical studies.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A Randomized, Double-Blind Study of the Effects of a Sustained Release Formulation of Sodium Nitrite (SR-nitrite) on Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy.
Sodium nitrite has been reported to be effective in reducing chronic peripheral pain. ⋯ Diabetes, diabetic neuropathy, neuropathic pain, peripheral neuropathy, sodium nitrite.
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Until now, few studies had investigated the neuropathic pain component in patients with a rotator cuff tear (RCT). ⋯ Shoulder, rotator cuff tear, arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, neuropathic pain.
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Identifying pain generators in tissue deep in the skin can require uncomfortable, complicated, and invasive tests. We describe pilot studies testing the hypothesis that ultrasound image-guided, intense focused ultrasound (ig-iFU) can noninvasively and differentially stimulate the end of transected nerves in the residual limbs of amputee patients. ⋯ Transected nerves had greater sensitivity to iFU stimulation than ipsilateral and contralateral control tissue, including intact nerve. These results support the view that ig-iFU may one day help physicians identify deep, tender tissue in patients who report experiencing pain.
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Neuropathic pain (NP) is a common symptom caused by lesions or diseases of the somatosensory nervous system. Acute/subacute peripheral neuropathies (APN) are rare, however can be particularly painful. ⋯ Neuropathic, pain, acute, subacute, neuropathy, polyneuropathy, frequency, incidence.