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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Post-Chest Surgery (Post – Thoracotomy) Shoulder Pain Cure But Only in Those With Sore Shoulder Muscles – Suprascapular Block and New Way to Do Block
Of 92 cases of post-thoracotomy muscular only shoulder pain, 83.5% obtained satisfactory pain relief from suprascapular nerve block
Posted in chest pain, neuropathic
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Frozen Shoulder Simple Test – Coracoid Tenderness
People with frozen shoulders have more sore coracoids versus with rotator cuff tear, calcifying tendonitis, glenohumeral arthritis, acromioclavicular arthropathy and asymptomatic subjects
Posted in shoulder
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Prior Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Doubles Chance Persistent “Troublesome Neck Pain” .
A Saskatchewan Study found people with previous MVA had twice the rate of persistent neck problems. Insurers like to play down this association but in fact this is real.
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New Cure For Untreatable Warts – Inject Them With MMR vaccine
Study involving treatments of warts- some multiple and recalcitrant (mean ~8 months), found a 81% cure rates (versus 27.5% in control saline injection group) with intralesional injections of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
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Botulinum For Scalene Based Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS)
After a car accident, TOS can pinch nerves in the neck and cause neck and arm pain with arm/hand numbness that nobody can seem to find a reason for. A simple injection into the anterior scalene muscle can prove the … Continue reading
Posted in thoracic outlet syn
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Platelet Rich Plasma(PRP) Treatment Takes a Hit – Doesn’t Work For Achilles Tendonopathy or Maybe It Does…
Recent Study in JAMA found PRP didn’t work more than saline injections for Achilles midportion tendonopathy.
Posted in achilles
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New Hope For Uncontrolled Visceral Abdominal Pain
One out of eight people with abdominal pain are uncontrolled with medication. This can be debilitating and affect quality of life. 66 out of 70 people had substantial symptom relief with spinal cord stimulation.
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Post Hernia Surgery Pain Protocol and Other Options
Recent Article gives a flow chart for dealing with post hernia pains – all leading to a surgical nerve removal procedure called Endoscopic retroperitoneal neurectomy.
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Yes, Virginia, Steroid Caudal Blocks Are Effective (At least For Spinal Stenosis)- and So Older People With Back Pain After Two Blocks Walking Are Better.
Article in Press Finds Caudal Epidural Steroid injection work for degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. This condition is the bane of older individuals that can’t walk more than a 2-3 blocks without getting back – leg pain. The pain remits with … Continue reading
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Is Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Genetic?
Old age change in the neck leading to narrowing of the spinal canal is the bane of older subjects. A Chinese study suggests, in their population, it is related to Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms
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? Sciatica Option – Drug For Pulmonary Hypertension Gives Relief
Case study of patient on Sitaxsentan, a selective endothelin-A antagonist used in pulmonary hypertension, found his sciatica got better while on the drug and worse when off.
Posted in Back Pain, radiculitis
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Telling If Your Cat Is Using Opioids
Cashing in on recent opioid phobia, I offer this synopsis on how you can tell if your cat is using drugs…
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Thoracic Intra-Articular Meniscoid Folds – A Plaisable Pain Generator
Detailed dissection of Thoracic Facets has found 62% of them hold and intra-joint mensicoid fold(s) – some with blood vessels. The addition of craggy clefts, cartilage damage, ulcers and hemmorhage all suggest they could be pain generators.
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Does Chronic Pain Cause Cancer? – The Answer is NO
Article in press found no increase in cancer in chronic pain patients
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Prolotherapy to Mid Tendon Achilles Tendonopathy – Only Mildly Better Results When Compared to Eccentric Loading Exercises – How Could That Be Better?
Article in Press found at 12 months, Relief scores were 73% for Eccentric Loading Exercises (ELE), 79% for prolotherapy and 86% for combined treatment in treatment of achilles tendonitis.
Posted in achilles, tendonitis
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