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Treatment of neck and shoulder pain in whip‐lash syndrome patients with intracutaneous sterile water injections
Author(s) -
BYRN C.,
BORENSTEIN P.,
LINDER L.E.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1991.tb03240.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pain relief , visual analogue scale , surgery , anesthesia , pain syndrome , whip (tree) , forestry , geography
Ten whip‐lash syndrome patients treated with intracutaneous triggerpoint injections with sterile water for pain relief were followed for 2 months. Pain intensity was evaluated with the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Eight patients became free from pain (VAS 0) and two patients improved to VAS 2 immediately after the treatment. Nine patients remained free from pain, three of them after one treatment, while six patients needed 2—4 treatments. One patient responded only a few hours after each of three treatments. Remarkably, with the relief of pain mobility was normalised in all patients. The method is suggested to be a first choice in the treatment of not only whip‐lash patients but also for most acute and chronic musculo‐skeletal triggerpoint pain syndromes.