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For neuropathic pain, clinicians look for an underlying lesion to the nervous system or an inciting cause consistent with the development of neuropathic pain. The obvious presence of an underlying feature or cause is not always detectable, and response to treatment may be used as a surrogate particularly in cases where diagnosis of the ...
A 2019 Cochrane review of the treatment of herbal medicinal products for people with neuropathic pain for at least three months concluded that "There was insufficient evidence to determine whether nutmeg or St John's wort has any meaningful efficacy in neuropathic pain conditions. The quality of the current evidence raises serious uncertainties ...
The treatment of each peripheral nerve entrapment has its own history, making any single narrative incomplete. [82] Theories on the causes of neuropathic pain have been closely intertwined with surgical research in a feedback loop. Theories of neuropathic pain would inform surgical experimentation, and surgical experimentation would lead to ...
Central pain syndrome, also known as central neuropathic pain, [1] is a neurological condition consisting of constant moderate to severe pain due to damage to the central nervous system (CNS) which causes a sensitization of the pain system. [2] [3] The extent of pain and the areas affected are related to the cause of the injury. [4]
Nociplastic pain, also known as central sensitisation, is a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from nociceptive pain, which is due to inflammation and tissue damage. As well as neuropathic pain, which is caused by nerve damage. [5] It may occur in combination with the other types of pain or in isolation.
The characteristics are typical of demyelinating neuropathy with antimyelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) antibodies; however, anti-MAG neuropathy is not included in the CIDP criteria according to the EFNS/PNS criteria, primarily due to the presence of a particular antibody and a different response to treatment.