by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 27, 2011 | Medications
GENERAL Opioids are substances similar to morphine that have been used for centuries to provide pain relief. The term “opioid” derives from the word “opium”, obtained from the poppy flower. There are natural, synthetic and semi-synthetic opioids. It has been known...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 24, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
RECOMMENDATIONS The treatment of shoulder pain should primarily be conservative with combination of pharmacotherapy and chiropractic/ physiotherapy. Should the above treatments fail (after being applied for a reasonable period of 4 weeks), minimally invasive...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 22, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL As described more analytically in the chapter of intradiscal degenerative disease, the intervertebral disc is innervated by the recurrent meningeal nerve (at each side of the spine) conveying pain signals of nociceptors from the posterior annulus fibrosus...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 20, 2011 | Minimal Invasive Pain Therapies, Treatments
GENERAL Sphenopalatine ganglion is a parasympathetic ganglion, no more than 5mm in width, located in the pterygopalatine fossa of the skull. The sphenopalatine ganglion sends nerve fibres to the lacrimal glands, glands of the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, palate...
