Imagine one day you stub your toe and the pain that would usually go away after a day or so, just keeps getting worse. Then the pain spreads to your whole foot which turns red and starts to swell. After a while your whole lower leg gets involved, you are having trouble walking and you can't...

The patient, “Harry”, was a 77 year old Korean War Veteran who suffered from both pain and numbness on the top and bottom of both his feet. This was caused by nerve damage he had gotten from multiple episodes of frostbite during the war. He had been treated unsuccessfully using physical therapy and a number of pain relieving drugs including ones specifically used for nerve pain.

Low back pain is a common disorder affecting millions of individuals annually. Back pain is the single most common cause for lost workdays in the United States and one of the most common reasons for patients to visit their primary care physician. It is estimated that approximately 50 to 80% of the...

Dr. Christopher J. Winfree of The Center for Peripheral Nerve Surgery and his colleagues describe in a paper, soon to be published in the journal Neurosurgery, how the innovative use of ultrasound can guide surgeons in the placement of a pain relieving device for a patient with intractable foot pai...

Description For many years, Atypical Facial Pain (AFP) represented a group of disorders that included most of the facial pain disorders that did not fit into the category of classic trigeminal neuralgia. As our understanding of the pathophysiology of the many facial pain disorders increased, a...