Articles: neuralgia.
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Complex regional pain syndrome is a chronic debilitating pain disorder that is difficult to manage, in part due to its heterogeneous clinical presentation and lack of clearly defined pathophysiology. Patients usually require a multidisciplinary approach to treatment, which can entail pharmacotherapy, physical therapy, behavioral therapy, and interventional pain procedures, such as sympathetic nerve blocks, spinal cord stimulation, and dorsal root ganglion stimulation. ⋯ Although the use of ST has been reported for several types of refractory central and peripheral neuropathic pain, there is a paucity of data regarding the use of ST for complex regional pain syndrome. We present two patients with complex regional pain syndrome of the right lower extremity, who each underwent ST and experienced significant pain relief and improvement in function and quality of life.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief pain inventory and pain detection questionnaire based on WeChat and paper versions for collecting data on patients with herpes zoster-induced neuralgia: An analysis for their validity and reliability.
This study explored the validity and reliability of brief pain inventory (BPI) and pain detection questionnaire (PD-Q) based on WeChat and paper versions for collecting data on patients with herpes zoster-induced neuralgia. ⋯ The WeChat and paper versions of the BPI and PD-Q have good repeatability, reliability, and consistency for collecting data on patients with herpes zoster-induced neuralgia.
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Traditionally, two mechanistic pain categories were distinguished: nociceptive and neuropathic pain. After the definitions of these two mechanistic descriptors were refined more precisely in the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) taxonomy in 2011, a large group of patients remained whose pain could not be assigned to either of the two categories. ⋯ This review article presents the current state of the integration of nociplastic pain into research and clinical practice. In particular, the possibilities and difficulties of applying this concept are addressed from a human and animal experimental research perspective.