Neuropathic pain is a common problem in clinical practice and one that adversely affects patients' quality of life. Converging evidence from animal and human studies demonstrates that neuropathic ...

Copyright: © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Neuropathic pain develops as a result of lesions or disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system ...

[52] These studies suggest that, apart from being involved in the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain following nerve and peripheral tissue injury, neurotrophins have an important role in the ...

The label of chronic non-neuropathic pain includes several pathological conditions, ranging from fibromyalgia to low-back pain and irritable bowel syndrome, where pain is a prominent, highly disabling ...

Neuropathic itch is a symptom of the same central and peripheral nervous system disorders that cause neuropathic pain, such as sensory polyneuropathy, radiculopathy, herpes zoster, stroke, or multiple ...

Recently, evidence from experimental human pain research has indicated that in many of these patients pain processing in the central nervous system is abnormal and mimics that seen in neuropathic pain ...

Management and Understanding gives readers an in-depth understanding of the multitude of conditions causing neuropathic pain. Epidemiology, clinical diagnosis, pathophysiology, outcome measurement and ...

Keywords: Pain, Regenerative Medicine, Interventional pain, Pathophysiology, Neuroanatomy, Spinal pain, Musculoskeletal pain, Neuropathic pain Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic ...

CONTENTS: After evaluating neuropathic pain pathophysiology after peripheral nerve injury, the incidence of peripheral nerve trauma injury and of postoperative chronic pain, of predictive factors and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In spite of its importance, neuropathic pain is underestimated and undertreated in childhood. Although many conditions causing neuropathic pain in adults are uncommon during ...