Treatment Nerve Pain
Having diabetes is not for wimps. Most patients with the disease are aware of the long-term complications: the increased risk for heart disease, blindness, kidney problems, and limb amputations. All these issues make a daily commitment to managing blood sugar important to overall health.Possibly the most frustrating problem for daily quality of life is the pain associated with diabetic neuropathy, or nerve damage. Diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP) is different from other types of...
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Special Diagnostic Methods, Special Treatments for Trigeminal...
The number five may be your unlucky number if you have Trigeminal Neuralgia. This type of neuropathy effects the fifth cranial nerve (CN V)... Read more »
Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Promising Fibromyalgia Treatment Possibility
A pilot study published online this month in the journal Pain Medicine evaluated the safety and effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation... Read more »
Back Pain: Can it be treated with Physical Therapy?
Even back pain caused by a spondylolisthesis and lumbar stenosis can be treated with physical therapy. Because spondylolisthesis and lumbar... Read more »
Postherpetic Neuralgia a Risk After Having Shingles
Anyone had chickenpox? If so, then you are at risk for postherpatic neuralgia, a common cause of chronic nerve pain. Follow this timeline.... Read more »
Antidepressants for Chronic Pain: Comparisons of the Old and New
Out with the old, in with the new; the world seems to revolve around this constant turnover. Sometimes new technology has a huge advantage,... Read more »
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Referred Pain: Can it be treated by Radiofrequency Ablation (R...
Leg pain, arm pain, and even headaches can all be referred from the facet joints in the spine. These small joints connect each vertebral body. Like... Read more »
TENS Unit for Pain
What is a TENS Unit?TENS means "transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation." TENS units are small devices that are battery controlled. Sometimes... Read more »
Results of 30 Years of Data on Electrical Nerve Stimulation fo...
Source: eOrthopod
Electrical nerve stimulation (ENS) is a treatment for chronic pain. The electrical energy is sent in various wave forms to the nerves. It is... Read more »
Nerve therapy, surgery equal at relieving pelvic pain
British scientists have found that a procedure that treats chronic pelvic pain by disrupting nerve connections is no more effective at relieving... Read more »
New drug may relieve MS-related nerve pain
A new study has found that the experimental drug Sativex may offer long-term relief from neuropathic pain for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).... Read more »
Common Questions to Diabetic Nerve Pain Answered
Can diabetic nerve pain be reversed? The painful sensations (called dysesthesias or parathesias) that are associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy may disappear over time. Sometimes this is due to improvement in diabetes control (for...
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