THE MANIPULATIVE TREATMENT OF PAINFUL FEET

Painful Feet from the Physician's Point of View.

Cutaneous thermal thresholds in patients with painful burning feet.

Small nerve fibre sensory function was assessed by psychophysical estimates of cutaneous thermal thresholds in 30 patients who presented with the symptoms of painful burning feet. Thresholds were abnormal in 12 and normal in 18 patients although symptoms in the two groups were very similar. Various hypotheses for the mechanism of pain in small fibre neuropathy have been proposed previously and ...

Treatment efficacy of 153Sm-EDTMP for painful bone metastasis

Introduction: Involvement of the skeleton can cause an excruciating pain in two-thirds of terminal patients with a history of malignancy. Due to several limitations of other therapies, such as analgesics, bisphosphonates, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and external beam radiotherapy; bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals have an important role in palliation of pain from bone metastases. Although th...

The Place of Manipulative Treatment in Lesions

Few methods of physical treatment have given rise to such controversy as manipulation has done, and the reason for this is not difficult to discover. Manipulative methods of treatment, when applied to lesions of the lumbar spine, are necessarily empirical, even though sometimes dramatic in their success. In common with non-specific therapeutic methods in other fields of medicine, it engenders v...

Broadening the spectrum of controls for skin biopsy in painful neuropathies: spondylotic cervical myelopathy patients with painful feet

PURPOSE Intraepidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) is useful in the evaluation of small-fiber neuropathy (SFN). Recent guidelines recommend extending the spectrum of controls for IENFD assessment by evaluation of patients whose clinical picture mimics that of SFN. The aim of this study was to broaden the spectrum of IENFD controls by the assessment of patients with cervical spondylotic myelopat...