OBJECTIVE It has been estimated that 10%-35% of patients who undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) have chronic postoperative pain, most often located at the greater trochanter. After greater trochanteric bursectomy (GTB), patients also may continue to experience chronic surgical site pain. Chronic pain has a neuropathic component, which often responds poorly to opioids. In an attempt to provide...

Apical periodontitis is a relatively frequently encountered disease in clinical dentistry; however, its pathogenesis and etiology are not easily elucidated. Therefore, it is not always cured, even when carefully following the highest standards of treatment and intractable apical periodontitis may occur. In addition, in long-term root canal treatment of difficult cases with intractable pain, the...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical outcomes of 100 consecutive patients receiving peripheral nerve field stimulation (PNFS) for the treatment of chronic intractable pain. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. SETTING A private interventional pain specialty referral practice. PATIENTS One hundred consecutive private practice patients receiving PNFS for the treatment of chronic craniofac...

Phantom limb pain is a phenomenon in which patients experience pain in a part of the body that no longer exists. In several treatment modalities, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been introduced for the management of intractable post-amputation pain. A 46-year-old male patient complained of severe ankle and foot pain, following above-the-knee amputation surgery on the right side amputation sur...