Reviews in painPub Date : 2001-06-01DOI: 10.1191/0968130201PR175RA
R. Hawkins
{"title":"A systematic meta-review of hypnosis as an empirically supported treatment for pain","authors":"R. Hawkins","doi":"10.1191/0968130201PR175RA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/0968130201PR175RA","url":null,"abstract":"A newly developed methodological technique (the systematic meta-review) was applied to determine whether hypnosis is an empirically supported treatment for pain. This involved, initially, a systematic search of the published literature for review studies. These reviews were then subjected to a validated quality scale. There was sufficient evidence of good quality to allow the conclusion that hypnosis does have demonstrable efficacy in the treatment of pain. The only meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia1 showed that 'the average participant treated with hypnosis demonstrated greater analgesic response that 75% of participants in standard and no-treatment control groups' (p. 143). The hypothesis that poor-quality reviews are more likely to produce positive conclusions was not supported. A citation database of all reviews has been assembled and can be extended with time.","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"25 1","pages":"47-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81651470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviews in painPub Date : 2001-04-01DOI: 10.1191/0968130201PR173RA
M. Kemler
{"title":"Complex regional pain syndrome type I","authors":"M. Kemler","doi":"10.1191/0968130201PR173RA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/0968130201PR173RA","url":null,"abstract":"Complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS) is a chronic pain disorder involving the sensory, motor, and autonomic nervous systems, often leading to severe debilitation. Most commonly, a preceding limb injury catalyzes CRPS, although insidious onset has been known to occur. An estimated 60,000 Americans are affected by CRPS, including individuals between 25 and 55 years of age. CRPS is three times more likely to occur in women, although it can affect anyone [1]. Table 1 contains the CRPS clinical diagnostic criteria suggested by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Because of the poor understanding of the etiology of CRPS, its medical management is nebulous. Along with pain management, optimal treatment outcomes appear to be achieved when emphasizing functional restoration-a realm largely encompassed by physical therapists (PT). However, a review of the literature found that the term physical therapy is often used vaguely with no corresponding definition or description of procedures employed during treatment [2]. This has left PTs with a lack of guidance in treating patients with CRPS. The purpose of this case report is to describe the physical therapy management of a 38-year-old patient with CRPS developed from a chronic anterior talofibular ligament (ATFL) injury by using Active Release Techniques® (ART®) in combination with joint mobilization, gait training, therapeutic exercise, and education to document the observed clinical and functional improvements.","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"107 1","pages":"35-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80772730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviews in painPub Date : 2001-04-01DOI: 10.1191/0968130201PR172RA
N. Shenker, R. Haigh, E. Roberts, P. Mapp, N. Harris, D. Blake
{"title":"Pain, neurogenic inflammation and symmetry in medical practice","authors":"N. Shenker, R. Haigh, E. Roberts, P. Mapp, N. Harris, D. Blake","doi":"10.1191/0968130201PR172RA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/0968130201PR172RA","url":null,"abstract":"Symmetry is a cardinal feature of certain painful and ineammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. This symmetry does not occur by chance, but it is as yet unexplained. It has been hypothesized by this group and others that mechanisms of neurogenic ineammation could explain both this symmetrical distribution and the chronicity of these diseases. A recent review has demonstrated contralateral responses in the nervous system to unilateral neurological insults. These responses were topographically precise and stimulus speciec in nature. This article details similar responses that have been observed to ineammatory stimuli in animal models. The role of pro-ineammatory neuropeptides, such as substance P, in these pathways is discussed. The hypothesis could be tested in both animals and humans.","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"368 1","pages":"27-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74891514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviews in painPub Date : 2001-04-01DOI: 10.1191/0968130201PR170RA
I. Marples, R. Atkinson
{"title":"Stellate ganglion block","authors":"I. Marples, R. Atkinson","doi":"10.1191/0968130201PR170RA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/0968130201PR170RA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"45 1","pages":"3-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73550135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviews in painPub Date : 2001-01-01DOI: 10.1191/0968130201PR183RA
Maree T. Smith, S. South
{"title":"The role of morphine-6-glucuronide (M6G) in pain control","authors":"Maree T. Smith, S. South","doi":"10.1191/0968130201PR183RA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/0968130201PR183RA","url":null,"abstract":"Morphine-6beta-D-glucuronide (M6G) is an analgesically active metabolite of morphine, accounting for approximate to10% of the morphine dose when administered by systemic routes to humans. Although M6G is more hydrophilic than morphine, it crosses the blood-brain barrier, albeit relatively slowly. For this reason, it is generally thought that, after chronic dosing, M6G contributes significantly to the analgesic effects of systemically administered morphine. Owing to its polar nature, M6G is cleared from the systemic circulation primarily via renal elimination. As M6G accumulates in patients with renal impairment, there is an increased risk of M6G-induced respiratory depression in renal failure patients who are being dosed chronically with systemic morphine. Consistent with its analgesic and respiratory depressant properties, M6G binds to the p-opioid receptor in a naloxone-reversible manner. Although the affinity of M6G for the mu-opioid receptor is similar to or slightly less than that of morphine, preclinical studies in rodents show that M6G is one to two orders of magnitude more potent than morphine when administered by central routes. This major discrepancy between the markedly higher intrinsic antinociceptive potency of M6G relative to morphine, despite their similar p-opioid receptor binding affinities, is difficult to reconcile. It has been proposed that M6G mediates its pain-relieving effects through a novel 'M6G opioid receptor', while others have argued that M6G may have higher efficacy than morphine for transduction of intracellular events. When administered by parenteral routes to rodents, M6G's antinociceptive potency is no more than twofold higher than morphine. In humans, the analgesic efficacy and respiratory depressant potency of M6G relative to morphine have been assessed in a number of short-term studies involving the intrathecal or intravenous routes of administration. For example, in hip replacement patients, intrathecal M6G provided excellent postoperative analgesia but the occurrence of late respiratory depression in 10% of these patients raised serious concern about safety. In postoperative patients, intravenous M6G administered by means of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), or bolus plus PCA, produced no analgesia in one study and limited analgesia in another. Similarly, there was a lack of significant analgesia in healthy volunteers who received intravenous M6G for the alleviation of experimental pain (carbon dioxide applied to the nasal mucosa). In contrast, satisfactory analgesia was produced by bolus doses of intravenous M6G administered to patients with cancer pain, and to healthy volunteers with experimentally-induced ischaemic, electrical or thermal (ice water) pain. Studies to date in healthy volunteers suggest that intravenous M6G may be a less potent respiratory depressant and have a lower propensity for producing nausea and vomiting than morphine. However, it is unclear whether equi-analgesic doses of M6G and m","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"2010 1","pages":"171-191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73771178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviews in painPub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1191/096813000678809447
M. Tominaga
{"title":"Capsaicin receptor and its homologue in nociception","authors":"M. Tominaga","doi":"10.1191/096813000678809447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/096813000678809447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"23 1","pages":"97-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84609115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reviews in painPub Date : 2000-07-01DOI: 10.1191/096813000678809429
P. Dessein
{"title":"Nociceptive and non-nociceptive rheumatological pain : recent understanding of pathophysiology and management in rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia","authors":"P. Dessein","doi":"10.1191/096813000678809429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1191/096813000678809429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90719,"journal":{"name":"Reviews in pain","volume":"31 1","pages":"67-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74889361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}