by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jun 19, 2011 | Advises For Patients
If pain is localised low in the back, with potential radiation to the buttocks and posterior or/and lateral surface of thighs down to the knees and in some rare cases even lower, then three are the most probable causes of chronic lumbar pain: 1. Facet Joint Syndrome...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jun 19, 2011 | Advises For Patients
Should the patient observe gradual and continuously increasing loss of muscle strength or/and urinary/defecation incontinence or newly manifested urinary/defecation disorder, only then must s/he urgently resort to surgery. About 90% of cases of sciatica due to...
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jun 19, 2011 | Medications, Technology and Chronic pain
GENERAL During the last years since 2008, approximately 2 billion dollars have been invested worldwide on research and production of drugs in the form of a nasal spray. Such drugs are calcitonin for osteoporosis, desmopressin for enuresis and triptanes for migraine. A...
by E-ALGOS Co-Authors Team | Jun 19, 2011 | Technology and Chronic pain
What is an implantable drug infusion pump? As opposed to drugs delivered by different routes of administration to systematic circulation, the implantable pump delivers drastic drugs through an implanted catheter straight into the fluid surrounding the spinal cord....
by Dimitris Papadopoulos MD Fellow Of Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP) | Jun 19, 2011 | Articles
GENERAL It is a therapeutic minimally invasive technique that reduces pain of degenerated and painful joints in the cervical, lumbar and thoracic spine. The small nerve branches innervating these facet joints are identified and ablated with application of radiowaves...
