The Clinical journal of pain
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acute burn pain management has advanced significantly, yet little is known about long-term pain outcomes after severe burn injury. Even less is known about patient satisfaction with pain management after burn injury. This study examined the long-term pain and psychological outcomes of burn survivors who were treated at the Burns Service of Western Australia between 1994 and 2005. ⋯ collectively, these findings suggest a significant proportion of severely injured burn survivors continue to experience persistent pain and point to the need to identify and treat persistent pain more effectively. Moreover, assessing and managing pain treatment expectations during the early phase of recovery postburn may yield improved levels of patient satisfaction with treatment received
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the underlying cause of pathophysiological mechanisms triggering multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) remains disputed.Recently, alterations in the central nervous system, for example,central sensitization, similar to various chronic pain disorders, have been suggested. Capsaicin is used in experimental pain models to provoke peripheral and central sensitization. In patients with symptoms elicited by odorous chemicals capsaicin-induced secondary hyperalgesia and temporal summation were assessed as markers for abnormal central nociceptive processing together with neurogenic inflammation (flare). ⋯ this is the first study to show facilitated pain processing in MCS and EC patients with the most abnormal responses in MCS.
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the objective of this case is to report an occurrence of a skin rash in a dermatomal distribution subsequent to a lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection. ⋯ this is the first described case of a focal dermatomal rash occurring following lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injection and we wish to remind pain practitioner’s of the possibility of anaphylactic events.
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this study aimed to correlate magnetic resonance (MR) findings and discography with pain response at provocative discography in patients with low back pain. ⋯ disc degeneration grades on MR imaging showedan association with discographic grades. Type IV-V discs on discography, Grade IV-V disc on MR images, the presence of HIZ,and endplate abnormalities might indicate discogenic pain inpatients with chronic low back pain.