Browse the latest research summaries in the field of pain management for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Ann Rehabil Med, 2015 • April 1, 2015
This case report describes the use of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) to treat a 72-year-old male with painful chronic neurogenic heterotopic ossification (NHO) following a traumatic brain in...
KEY FINDING: ESWT resulted in pain relief, as measured by a decrease in VAS scores from 8-10 to 3, which was maintained throughout the 12-week follow-up period.
BMC Anesthesiology, 2015 • May 29, 2015
This study evaluated the analgesic effect of immediate pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatment after nerve injury in a rat model of spared nerve injury (SNI). The results showed that immediate PRF appli...
KEY FINDING: Immediate PRF treatment after SNI significantly reduced mechanical and cold allodynia in rats over 28 days.
Mol Pain, 2015 • June 11, 2015
This study investigated the involvement of serotonergic and noradrenergic pathways in spinal cord stimulation (SCS)-induced antinociception in rats with spinal nerve injury. The researchers found that...
KEY FINDING: SCS increased the number of serotonergic neurons and activated them in the DRN, suggesting a key role for this area in SCS-induced pain relief.
Journal of Pain Research, 2016 • November 3, 2016
This study investigated the effectiveness of breathing-controlled electrical stimulation (BreEStim) for neuropathic pain management in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients, comparing it to conventional e...
KEY FINDING: BreEStim showed significantly greater analgesic effects compared to EStim. Reduction in VAS score was significantly greater after BreEStim (2.6±0.3) than after EStim (0.8±0.3) (P<0.001).
Toxins, 2015 • June 30, 2015
This review examines the effectiveness of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) in treating neuropathic pain (NP) associated with neurological conditions commonly managed in neuro-rehabilitation settings. BT...
KEY FINDING: BTX-A has shown promise in treating neuropathic pain associated with various neurological disorders, including post-stroke shoulder pain and painful diabetic neuropathy.
Ann Rehabil Med, 2015 • June 1, 2015
This study aimed to determine the effects of aerobic exercise on neuropathic pain and whether regular treadmill exercise alters μ-opioid receptor (MOR) expression in the rostral ventral medulla (RVM) ...
KEY FINDING: Regular treadmill exercise led to a decrease in body weight in the CCI+exercise group compared to the CCI group.
J Shoulder Elbow Surg, 2015 • August 1, 2015
The review identifies a number of neural structures and mechanisms that may contribute to pain and shoulder dysfunction in patients with RC disease, including proprioceptive function disruption and al...
KEY FINDING: RC disease is associated with structural and functional alterations of proprioceptors. Either reduced or inconsistent proprioceptive information from the injured muscle-tendon unit and altered muscle reflex activity may impair shoulder proprioception and contribute to impaired kinematics and muscle recruitment.
Case Reports in Medicine, 2015 • July 15, 2015
This case report describes a patient with spinal cord injury-related neuropathic pain who experienced complete pain relief with baclofen 5% cream. However, the pain relief led to increased walking dif...
KEY FINDING: Topical baclofen 5% cream can effectively control neuropathic pain associated with spinal cord injury.
Neuromodulation, 2015 • October 1, 2015
This study examined whether combining electrical stimulation of the dorsal column (DC) and dorsal root (DR) provides a greater inhibitory effect on wide-dynamic-range (WDR) neurons in nerve-injured ra...
KEY FINDING: At a moderate intensity of electrical stimulation, different patterns of conditioning stimulation (CS) all reduced the C-component of WDR neurons in response to electrical stimuli and inhibited windup.
Ann Rehabil Med, 2015 • August 19, 2015
This case report describes a 53-year-old male with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) who suffered from severe pain and spasticity in his lower limbs, hindering his ability to stand and walk. Following...
KEY FINDING: A patient with cervical SCI experienced significant reduction in lower limb spasticity and pain after lumbar ESI.