Howard S Smith
Howard S Smith
It has been appreciated for some time now that humans react differently to opioids. A specific opioid such as morphine sulfate may have specific analgesic effects for certain patients with postherpetic neuralgia whereas in other patients wi...
Review
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):237-48. DOI: 2008
Opioid antagonists, partial agonists, and agonists/antagonists: the role of office-based detoxification [0.03%]
阿片拮抗剂、部分激动剂和兼有拮抗作用的激动剂：门诊戒断治疗的作用
Standiford Helm,Andrea M Trescot,James Colson et al.
Standiford Helm et al.
Background: The opioid receptor antagonists naloxone and naltrexone are competitive antagonists at the mu, kappa, and sigma receptors with a higher affinity for the mu receptor and lacking any mu receptor efficacy. Bupren...
Review
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):225-35. DOI: 2008
Ultrasound-guided interventional procedures for patients with chronic pelvic pain - a description of techniques and review of literature [0.03%]
超声引导下慢性盆腔痛患者的介入治疗——技术描述和文献回顾
Philip W H Peng,Paul S Tumber
Philip W H Peng
Chronic pelvic pain can present in various pain syndromes. In particular, interventional procedure plays an important diagnostic and therapeutic role in 3 types of pelvic pain syndromes: pudendal neuralgia, piriformis syndrome, and "border ...
Review
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):215-24. DOI: 2008
Howard S Smith
Howard S Smith
Although there is no "ideal analgesic," scientists and clinicians alike continue to search for compounds with qualities which may approach the "ideal analgesic." Characteristics of an "ideal" analgesic may include: the agent is a full agoni...
Review
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):201-14. DOI: 2008
Joseph F Jasper,Salim M Hayek
Joseph F Jasper
Background: Chronic headache represents a very significant public health and economic issue. One treatment modality for chronic refractory headache involves the use of subcutaneous implanted neurostimulator leads in the o...
Review
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):187-200. DOI: 2008
Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, and guidelines in interventional pain management, part I: introduction and general considerations [0.03%]
循证医学、系统综述和指南在介入性疼痛治疗中的应用（一）：介绍与总体考虑
Laxmaiah Manchikanti
Laxmaiah Manchikanti
Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, and guidelines are part of modern interventional pain management. As in other specialties in the United States, evidence-based medicine appears to motivate the search for answers to numerous ques...
Review
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):161-86. DOI: 2008
Influence of psychological variables on the diagnosis of facet joint involvement in chronic spinal pain [0.03%]
心理变量对慢性脊柱疼痛患者椎小关节累及诊断影响的研究
Laxmaiah Manchikanti,Kimberly A Cash,Vidyasagar Pampati et al.
Laxmaiah Manchikanti et al.
Background: Facet or zygapophysial joint pain is one of the common conditions responsible for chronic spinal pain. Controlled diagnostic blocks are considered the only means of reliable diagnosis of facet joint pain, due ...
Comparative Study
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):145-60. DOI: 2008
Response to pulsed and continuous radiofrequency lesioning of the dorsal root ganglion and segmental nerves in patients with chronic lumbar radicular pain [0.03%]
脉冲和连续射频背根神经节及腰椎脊神经节损术治疗慢性腰性坐骨神经营养痛的疗效比较研究
Thomas T Simopoulos,Jan Kraemer,Jyotsna V Nagda et al.
Thomas T Simopoulos et al.
Objectives: We aimed to prospectively evaluate the response and safety of pulsed and continuous radiofrequecy lesioning of the dorsal root ganglion/segmental nerves in patients with chronic lumbosacral radicular pain. ...
Clinical Trial
Pain physician. 2008 Mar-Apr;11(2):137-44. DOI: 2008
Prevalence of complex regional pain syndrome in a cohort of multiple sclerosis patients [0.03%]
多发性硬化病人的复杂区域疼痛综合征患病率
Robert J Schwartzman,Chamindra Gurusinghe,Edward Gracely
Robert J Schwartzman
Background: More than 50% of multiple sclerosis patients experience chronic pain syndrome. We set out to determine the specific type of chronic pain that was seen in our multiple sclerosis patients. ...
Srinivas Chiravuri,Ronald Wasserman,Amit Chawla et al.
Srinivas Chiravuri et al.
Headache following interventional procedures is a diagnostic challenge due to the multitude of possible etiologies involved. Presentation can be simple (PDPH alone) or complex (exacerbation of pre-existing chronic headache along with PDPH) ...
Case Reports
Pain physician. 2008 Jan;11(1):97-101. DOI: 2008