Browse the latest research summaries in the field of pain management for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Pain Research and Management, 2022 • July 8, 2022
This study explored the relationship between pain, bone metastasis, and cytokine expression in cancer patients treated with external radiation therapy. The research aimed to identify specific cytokine...
KEY FINDING: Radiotherapy significantly improved pain scores and quality of life in cancer patients with bone metastasis.
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.
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.
Oncotarget, 2017 • November 25, 2016
This study investigated the effects of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy on neuropathic pain induced by chronic constriction injury (CCI) in rats, focusing on the expression of HCN1/HCN2 mRN...
KEY FINDING: CCI induced neural cell degeneration, while PEMF promoted nerve regeneration as documented by Nissl staining.