CAUSES Meralgia Paraesthetica is the condition where the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is compressed by the inguinal ligament, due to obesity, pregnancy or belt worn too tight around the waist. ANATOMY The lateral femoral cutaneous nerve is part of the lumbar plexus...
GENERAL Thirty per cent (30%) of cancer patients suffer from pain during the diagnostic phase and 65-85% experience severe pain in more advanced stages of the disease. According to Cleeland et al, 67% of patients treated for the disease in an outpatient setting...
GENERAL Disc Degenerative Disease (DDD) is the distortion of the interior architecture of an intervertebral disc, not necessarily because of disc protrusion and with no clinical signs of nerve root compression. It is estimated that approximately 40% of patients...
GENERAL Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a chronic syndrome of neuropathic pain affecting the facial area. It is considered to be the most excruciating pain probably due to the fact that the facial region has a very dense distribution of sensory nerve endings per square...
GENERAL Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are quite common in the population and are mainly due to osteoporosis. The problem is that almost 2/3 of these fractures remain undiagnosed and are attributed to pain caused by muscle spasms or spondyloarthritis related to...
ANATOMY Joint is the meeting point of two or more bones. The joint allows the movement of bones. The bones of the spine are called vertebrae. Vertebrae are interconnected through facet joints, else known as zygoapophyseal joints or apophyseal joints. Every vertebra...
Head and Face Pain
ALLODYNIA = feeling of pain due to a stimulus which does not normally provoke pain DYSAESTHESIA=...
Intravenous lidocaine has strong sodium-channel blocking properties and is effective in the...
GENERAL Non steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID"S), such as aspirin and paracetamol, are the...
GENERAL Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are quite common in the population and are mainly due to...
ANATOMY Vertebral bodies are separated one from another with intervertebral discs. The discs are...
The most common causes of acute low back pain are injury, overloading, sprain or/and strain of...
ANATOMY Joint is the meeting point of two or more bones. The joint allows the movement of bones....
Low back pain is typically differentiated in acute and chronic. • Acute low back pain has a...
Panos Symeonidis Orthopaedic Surgeon Foot & Ankle Specialist www.foot-ankle.gr Introduction...
Dr. Charles A. Gauci MD FRCA FIPP FFPMRCA Consultant in Pain Medicine, Whipps Cross University...