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Treatment of Painful Limbs/Moving Extremities with Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections

Author(s) -

Mahmood Eisa,

Carlos Singer,

Cenk Sengun,

Angela Russel,

Bahman Jabbari,

Spiridon Papapetropoulos

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

european neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1421-9913

pISSN - 0014-3022

DOI - 10.1159/000138962

Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , botulinum toxin , analgesic , lumbar , surgery

doses of opioids. Treatment is often unsatisfactory with few reports of success with sympathetic block, lumbar epidural blocks or epidural spinal cord stimulation [7–9] . We describe herein 2 patients with PLMT in whom analgesic multipharmacy failed to relieve their severe lower limb pain. On the other hand treatment with Botulinum toxin type A (Botox , Allergan, Inc.) resulted in both pain relief and improvement of involuntary movements.

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