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Prolonged Relief of Chronic Pain from Local Anaesthetic Blocks

Author(s) -

Ellen N. Thompson

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

pain research and management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702

H-Index - 56

eISSN - 1918-1523

pISSN - 1203-6765

DOI - 10.1155/2000/671293

Subject(s) - medicine , pain relief , anesthesia , local anesthetic , neuralgia , chronic pain , local anaesthetic , anesthetic , nerve block , neuropathic pain , physical therapy

In a fascinating essay on the future of local anesthetic agents, Wall (1) cited a 1990 paper from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, entitled 'Prolonged relief of neuralgia after regional anesthetic blocks: A call for further experimental and systematic clinical studies' (2). The Swedish researchers had found that two-thirds of 38 patients with neuralgia experienced prolonged (up to six days) relief of pain after blocking of the injured nerve

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