Browse the latest research summaries in the field of pain management for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Pain Practice, 2025 • January 1, 2025
This study investigated the influence of pain on community reintegration among manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI). It examined the associations between neuropathic pain, nociceptive...
KEY FINDING: Most participants (85.2%) reported current pain, with neuropathic pain (53.3%) being more common than nociceptive shoulder pain (14.8%).
PAIN Reports, 2024 • October 8, 2024
This pilot study investigated the analgesic effects of different IVR environments (scenic, somatic) compared with a control environment and explored psychomotor properties influencing pain attenuation...
KEY FINDING: Scenic VR participants showed reduced Neuropathic Pain Symptom Inventory scores postintervention and at follow-up, suggesting pain reduction.
Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2024 • September 24, 2024
The study investigates the efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) in mitigating neuropathic pain (NPP) in mice by examining the role of adenosine A3 receptors (Adora-3) in the central nervous system. EA ...
KEY FINDING: EA upregulates Adora-3 and CD73 expression while inhibiting ADA expression in the spinal cord dorsal horn (SCDH) of mice with spared nerve injury (SNI)-induced neuropathic pain.
Cureus, 2024 • September 14, 2024
This case report presents a patient with chronic peripheral neuropathic pain due to a median nerve injury, which was successfully treated with spinal cord stimulation (SCS). The patient's treatment in...
KEY FINDING: A combination of nerve blocks and rehabilitation during opioid reduction can prevent worsening pain.
Biomedicines, 2024 • October 16, 2024
This study investigated the effects of caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) on persistent pain (PP) and allodynia in patients with phantom limb pain (PLP), spinal cord injury pain (SCIP), complex regi...
KEY FINDING: CVS induced a statistically significant pain reduction compared to an ice pack control procedure. Pain reduced from baseline by an average of 24.8% within 30 min after CVS, compared to 6.4% after the ice pack intervention.
Interventional Pain Medicine, 2024 • August 27, 2024
CILESIs should only be performed at C6-C7 or below, with C7-T1 as the preferred access point based on an anatomic review of the cervical dorsal epidural space. Spinal LF gaps are most commonly found i...
KEY FINDING: CILESIs should be performed at C6-C7 or below to minimize the risk of spinal cord injury.
Cureus, 2024 • October 20, 2024
This case report describes the successful management of refractory intercostal neuralgia in a 40-year-old male patient using peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS). The patient had a history of decades-lo...
KEY FINDING: A 40-year-old male with long-standing intercostal neuralgia experienced significant pain relief with a permanent PNS implant after failing multiple other treatments.
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2024 • October 29, 2024
This case report describes a rare instance of spinal intracord injection damage during interlaminar cervical epidural steroid injection (ICESI) resulting in quadriplegia. The patient, a 47-year-old wo...
KEY FINDING: The patient experienced immediate loss of consciousness and quadriplegia following ICESI, indicating spinal intracord injection damage.
Healthcare, 2024 • November 17, 2024
This study characterized tonic cold perception and endogenous pain modulation in individuals with and without SCI-NP, considering the stage and severity of SCI and, secondarily, NP phenotype. Measurem...
KEY FINDING: Temporal summation of pain (TSP) in response to the foot CPT was higher in subacute compared to chronic incomplete SCI-NP, while TSP to the hand CPT was significantly higher in chronic compared to the subacute complete SCI-NP group.
Brain Communications, 2024 • November 21, 2024
This study investigated the effectiveness of dorsal root entry zone (DREZ) microcoagulation in relieving below-level neuropathic pain in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). The research involved p...
KEY FINDING: DREZ microcoagulation resulted in short-term (12 days) and long-term (1+ year) pain relief for participants with SCI below-level neuropathic pain, especially when lesioning both cephalad and caudal to the injury.