Chronic Pain Syndromes: How to Break the Cycle, Part 2  

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Provenzano, David A ; Levin, Morris

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Medical Progress vol. 36 no. 02 (Feb. 2009), page 70.

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First - line treatment for trigeminla neuralgia is medical therapy. because more than 50 % of patientshave periods of remission that last longer than 6 months, the drug dosage can be tapered as soon as 12 weeks after pain has been adequately controlled. if monotherapy is ineffctive, add a second agent. more than 50% of patient with lumbar radicular pain caused by a herniated nucleus pulposus, the symtoms abate with time. Conservative and minimally invasive options include oral analgesics, physical therapy and lumbar epidural steroid injections. Immediate surgery is required if the patient has progressive neurological weakness or signs and symtoms associated with cauda equina syndrom

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