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Therapeutic neuroscience education is helping patients to understand chronic pain from a neurophysiology perspective. It teaches patients very basic things about the physiology of our nervous system, how the brain gets involved in producing pain, and helps people to understand exactly what changes...
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Treatment of neuropathic pain requires a multidisciplinary plan made up of multiple components. It requires a personalized strategy that engages psychological approaches, procedural approaches, complementary or alternative medicine techniques, physical and occupational therapies, and then also...
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There’s much that you can do to help your patients with postherpetic neuralgia—including how you manage referrals. In this segment, a professor of neurology offers insights for primary care clinicians on diagnosing and managing postherpetic neuralgia, including patient discussion to effectively set...
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Some observations on pain mechanisms, diagnostic testing and back pain that underlie an effective clinical approach to management and treatment.
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Comments on the prevalence of CRPS and its relation to fibromyalgia from a practitioner and professor of neurology.
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Another common pain syndrome that occurs in older adults is postherpetic neuralgia or shingles pain. This is something that I think is really underappreciated. Essentially, what we’re looking at is that when we’re young, many of us develop chickenpox. As we age, the varicella-zoster virus that...
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When you go to the textbooks, historically speaking, there was no mention of pain associated with neuromuscular disorders. Most--including Charcot-Marie-Tooth (which is a hereditary neuropathy) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, most forms of muscular dystrophy--conditions were described as painless and...