This is not my usual issue specific and highly researched editorial piece, and for that I apologize in advance. In the next issue of Neuromodulation, I will discuss the significant issues with respect to quality control, patient outcomes and cost effectiveness facing both device manufacturers and physician practitioners of neuromodulation. During the production time of the current issue, howeve...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and associated factors of musculoskeletal (MS) pain among the dental personnel. In addition, impacts and treatment of MS pain were reported. MATERIAL AND METHOD Random sampling of 390 participants from the name lists of dental personnel working in each department. Self-administered questionnaires were equally distributed to three groups of dental personnel na...

ABSTRACT After arthroscopic ligament reconstruction, athletes still need to go through a postoperative rehabilitation training period and suffer the possible pain that can from moderate severe. Commonly used analgesic medications, ropivacaine fentanyl have effect of relieving athletes’ pain. To study on reconstruction knee ligament, steps pharmacology were first introduced. Next, effects in 86 ...

The effect of sublingual nitroglycerine (TNG) on relieving pain in renal and ureteral colic was studied in a randomized, prospective, double blind and placebo controlled clinical trial. One hundred out-patients between 16-60 years of age from either sex who were admitted to the urology emergency center of Ayatollah Taleghani and Ashrafi Esfahani hospitals were chosen for this study. They w...

OBJECTIVE This study explored the efficacy of local methylcobalamin injection in relieving pain and improving the quality of life among subjects with subacute herpetic neuralgia. DESIGN A single-center, randomized controlled trial of local methylcobalamin injection was performed. SUBJECTS Ninety-eight subjects (age, ≥ 50 years) with unilateral, dermatomal pain ≥ 4 related to herpes zoster o...

The effectiveness of lysine acetyl salicylate (LAS) 1.8 g, equivalent to aspirin 1 g, in relieving severe, immediate, postoperative pain has been compared with that of morphine 10 mg in comparable groups of patients. A single injection of LAS 1.8 did not give effective or consistent relief of pain, while morphine was both effective and consistent in its action. However, LAS was shown to have so...

We describe a young woman who had had treatment-refractory complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) for 6 years before receiving antibiotic treatment with cefadroxil (a cephalosporin derivative) for a minor infection. Cefadroxil reduced the patient's pain and motor dysfunction (dystonia and impaired voluntary movement) within days; the pain and motor disorder returned when cefadroxil was discontin...

A combined approach is recommended to treat chronic non-specific low back pain (lumbago), including pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods. Kinesiotherapy non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have a high level of evidence in lumbago. includes posture daily motor activity regimen training, complex therapeutic breathing exercises, post-isometric relaxation, other physical exerc...

Twenty-five patients with trigeminal neuralgia have been treated by fractional posterior fossa Vth nerve section. The procedure is shown to be effective in relieving pain, preserving corneal sensation and the motor root. Nineteen patients showed little loss of light touch sensation, and in 15 of these there was dissociation of sensory loss to pinprick and light touch. The results support the co...

Breast reconstruction with tissue expander is known to be the most painful procedure among breast surgical procedures and is more painful than mastectomy or axillary dissection [1]. This fact was confirmed with National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit in England in 2011 [2]. Severe pain was traditionally treated with intravenous narcotic analgesia. We are still searching for more eff...