by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 20, 2011 | Medications
GENERAL The drastic ingredient of the dermal patch is pure trans-capsaicin ( 8% /weight). Capsaicin is the drastic, spicy ingredient of chili peppers belonging to the genus Capsicum. There are two geometric capsaicin isomers, the trans-isomer of which is found in...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 19, 2011 | Conditions, Head and Face Pain, Migraine
GENERAL Migraine without aura occurs in about one third of patients suffering from headache and is relatively easy to diagnose. Migraine patients typically have a number of relapsing episodes of moderate to severe headache, which may be unilateral or/and pulsating and...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 19, 2011 | Cluster Headache, Conditions, Head and Face Pain
GENERAL Cluster headache is a primary neurovascular headache. It is a strictly unilateral (one-sided) headache, concomitant with symptoms of the autonomic nervous system in the head. It is characterised by the clustering nature of episodes. Episodes may be provoked by...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 15, 2011 | Cervical and upper limb pain, Cervical Facet Joint Syndrome, Conditions
GENERAL One of the most common causes of chronic cervical (neck) pain is the facet joint syndrome. More than 50% of patients visiting pain clinics for cervical pain, suffer from facet joint syndrome. This percentage is far higher than the corresponding rate of...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Feb 13, 2011 | Atypical Prosopalgia, Conditions, Head and Face Pain
GENERAL According to the International Headache Society, atypical prosopalgia is defined as the continuous facial pain not having the classical features of cranial neuralgias and for which no specific cause can be identified. According to these criteria, the...
