Post traumatic pain syndromes.

Post-traumatic Pain and the Causalgic Syndrome.

IT is not uncommon, especially in wartime, to be faced by patients complaining of persistant severe pain in the hand or foot following an injury to a limb, despite the absence of apparent cause. It is with such cases that the present paper is concerned. Excluded from consideration are cases in which post-traumatic pain arises from tender neuromata or obvious vascular abnormalities. Weir Mitchel...

Pain relief after nerve resection for post-traumatic neuralgia.

We performed resection of part of an injured peripheral nerve in 20 patients with post-traumatic neuralgia, after conservative treatment had failed. All had burning pain, paraesthesia and dysaesthesia in the area innervated by the injured nerve. We resected the nerve in the area in which the patient felt pain, and a further 3 cm proximal to the site of injury. In all cases, the local pain disap...

Fear avoidance and illness beliefs in post-traumatic neck pain.

STUDY DESIGN A descriptive overview of the relevant literature and the introduction of a new psychological model. OBJECTIVE The fear-avoidance (FA) model and the potential importance of illness beliefs in post-traumatic neck pain are discussed. The causal beliefs-anxiety model is introduced as an adaptation of the FA model, emphasizing the critical role of illness beliefs. SUMMARY OF BACKGR...

Post-traumatic neck pain: a prospective and follow-up study.

Three hundred fifty-one alert emergency department patients with post-traumatic neck pain were evaluated prospectively. Seven (2%) had proven fractures or ligament disruptions. The immediate onset of neck pain and the presence of posterior midline cervical tenderness each had 100% sensitivity, with specificity of 65% and 48%, respectively. Discharged patients were followed up by telephone or le...

Enhancing Post-Traumatic Pain Relief with Alternative Perineural Drugs