AIM To analyze long-term clinical results of coagulation lesions of the dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) in patients with deafferentation pain due to brachial plexus avulsion and to correlate the pain relief after DREZ coagulation with pain duration before the DREZ coagulation. METHODS Twenty-six patients with intractable deafferentation pain after brachial plexus avulsion lesion were treated fo...

BACKGROUND Shoichi Kokubun introduced his successful experience with local anesthetic injection at the occipital insertion of the sternocleidomastoid muscle in K-point syndrome. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term and long-term effectiveness of K-point injection and investigate factors affecting treatment results. METHODS K-point injection was performed in 58 patients wit...

Although acupuncture is gaining popularity for the treatment of nonspecific pain, the immediate analgesic effect of acupuncture has never been reviewed. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on disease-related pain to critically evaluate the immediate effect of acupuncture for pain relief. The PubMed and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled...

introduction: tonsillectomy is the one of the most common types of surgery in children, and is often accompanied by post-operative pain and discomfort. methods of pain control such as use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids), narcotics, and local anesthetics have been used, but each have their own particular side effects. in this study we investigated the effect of ketamine on post...

Recent claims contrast relief experienced because a period of unpleasant uncertainty has ended and an outcome materialized (temporal relief)—regardless whether it is one’s preferred outcome—with particular occurred, when the alternative was unpalatable (counterfactual relief). Two studies ( N = 993), one run day after United Kingdom left European Union Joe Biden’s inauguration, confirmed these ...