Ablation possible when steroid injections fail
Patients with low back pain who don’t respond robustly to intra-articular steroid injections may still be candidates for treatment with radiofrequency ablation (RFA), researchers said here.
Patients with low back pain who don’t respond robustly to intra-articular steroid injections may still be candidates for treatment with radiofrequency ablation (RFA), researchers said here.
Gabapentin treatment helped more than half of patients achieve relief from postherpetic neuralgia pain (PHN) in a “real-world clinical practice,” researchers said here.
In fibromyalgia patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery, low-dose, intraoperative ketamine appeared to reduce the need for post-surgical opioid therapy, researchers said.
The pain-relieving efficacy of the buprenorphine transdermal medication system didn’t seem to be altered by a patient’s body mass, researchers said.
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