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Chronic pain states: invasive procedures

J Garcia1, R D Altman

  • 1University of Miami, FL, USA.

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
|February 7, 1998
PubMed
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Understanding chronic pain neuroanatomy and chemical mediators like serotonin can improve pain management. New strategies target spinal cord pathways, offering alternatives to ablative surgeries for intractable pain.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Pain Management
  • Pharmacology

Background:

  • Chronic pain involves complex neuroanatomic pathways.
  • Effective pain management requires understanding these pathways and their influence on treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review chronic pain states, focusing on neuroanatomic pathways.
  • To explore how these pathways influence current and future treatment strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Comprehensive literature review of Medline database (1966-1996).
  • Focused on pain management, diagnosis, pathophysiology, interventions, and treatment.

Main Results:

  • Knowledge of chronic pain pathophysiology and chemical mediators (enkephalins, norepinephrine, serotonin, substance P) can enhance pain control.
  • Pain management can target descending spinal cord modulation pathways alongside traditional analgesic actions.

Conclusions:

  • Shift from ablative surgeries to augmentative procedures for intractable pain.
  • Specialized pain clinics offer benefits for complex, unresponsive pain cases.

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