Pain medicine experts have clarified which types of pain can be best treated by time in virtual reality for people who have had an arm amputated or paralyzed. Twenty minutes watching a virtual replacement arm perform simple tasks can reduce feelings of uncontrolled or unnatural movement, but sensations of shooting or burning nerve pain may be unchanged. People with amputated limbs often feel pain in the limb that is no longer present,...
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Scientists examine how neuropathic pain responds to Metformin
Scientists seeking an effective treatment for one type of chronic pain believe a ubiquitous, generic diabetes medication might solve both the discomfort and the mental deficits that go with the pain. Image: UT Dallas doctoral student Stephanie Shiers led a recent study with Dr. Sven Kroener (left) and Dr. Ted Price, both of the School...
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PIEZO2, a molecular target for treating clinical pain
If you’ve ever been sunburned, you’ve experienced the dreaded pain of putting on a shirt the next day. Fabric that should feel soft turns into a layer of painful pressure. That kind of pain-from what should feel like a gentle touch-is called allodynia, and it’s a fact of life for many people who suffer from...
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A new generation of pain medication
Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Zuse Institute Berlin have developed a new generation of pain medication. The researchers used computer simulations to develop new opioids that will only work at sites affected by injury or inflammation. These drugs can prevent the occurrence of brain- and gut-related side effects typically associated with conventional opioids and have been proven successful...
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Turning off the brain’s ‘pain center’ could finally bring relief to millions of chronic nerve pain suffers, study finds
About 10 percent of the population lives with chronic nerve pain Neuropathic is especially hard to treat and its burning, numbness and stinging don’t respond well to opioids Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital discovered a central group of neurons where pain and touch get interpreted in the brain By turning these ‘off’ they brought relief...
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Peripheral nerve block provides some with long-lasting pain relief for severe facial pain
A new study has shown that the use of peripheral nerve blocks in the treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia (TGN) may produce long-term pain relief. TGN is a condition involving sudden episodes of severe facial pain that significantly reduces the quality of life in those affected. When medication fails to control the pain, some patients turn...