Items Tagged ‘Pain’
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Neurosurgery Offers Hope Against Runaway Pain Syndrome
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...
Posted on Feb 16, 2010 by Department Author In Blog, Pain, Pain Center Blog, Peripheral Nerve Blog -
A New Way to Give an Old Vet Relief

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.
Posted on Dec 16, 2009 by Department Author In Blog, Peripheral Nerve, Peripheral Nerve Blog -
Lower Back 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...
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Surgeons Use Ultrasound, Not to Find a Baby, but a Nerve

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...
Posted on Oct 31, 2009 by Department Author In Peripheral Nerve Featured -
Atypical Facial Pain
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...