Pulsed radiofrequency therapy for relieving neuropathic bone pain in cancer patients

Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Using Pulsed Radiofrequency: A Meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Neuropathic pain (NP) is a major public health problem worldwide. Because of the unclear mechanism of NP, its treatment is one of the most difficult medical problems. As a targeted, noninvasive, safe therapy, pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) provides a new method for the treatment of NP; however, its effect on this treatment still lacks support from evidence-based medicine. OBJECTIVE To...

Health technology assessment of magnet therapy for relieving pain

Background: Magnet therapy has been used increasingly as a new method to alleviate pain. Magnetic products are marketed with claims of effectiveness for reducing pain of various origins. However, there are inconsistent results from a limited number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) testing the analgesic efficacy of magnet therapy. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness o...

Pulsed Radiofrequency Treatment of Pain Relieving Point in a Soft Tissue

Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment of nervous tissue has been proposed as a less neurodestructive technique alternative to continuous RF heat lesioning. Recently, clinical reports using PRF have shown favorable effects in the treatment of a variety of focal pain areas, even in non-nervous tissues; however, the mechanism of effect underlying this treatment to non-nervous tissue remains unclea...

using pulsed radiofrequency for chronic pain

Pulsed radiofrequency application for inguinal herniorraphy pain.

Pain Physician Vol. 9, No. 3, 2006 To the Editor: We consistently obtain similar clinical outcomes using pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) applications to those reported by Rozen and Parvez (1). In agreement, our clinic has been successfully treating post inguinal herniorrhaphy pain for 10 years using PRF applications to the dorsal root ganglia. Thus, we thank the authors for their report. We do note...