abstract：:Epidural administration of opiates as a long-term treatment of cancer pain, even for out-patients, is now well established. Most reports describe intermittent injections given several times a day, which may have technical and personal disadvantages. Continuous epidural infusion may be preferable. This report describes...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Ingemar F,Ahlgren H,Ahlgren MBE

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of amitriptyline was evaluated in 28 patients with chronic oral-facial pain. Most of the patients had evidence of musculoskeletal pain while some had a history suggesting pain of neurogenic origin. Two patients had mixed elements of neurogenic and musculoskeletal pain. Amitriptyline was more effective tha...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Sharav Y,Singer E,Schmidt E,Dionne RA,Dubner R

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of the analgesic, mood and side effects of the combination of intramuscular morphine and oral cocaine was conducted in 17 patients with postoperative pain and 19 others with chronic malignant pain for the purpose of assessing the therapeutic merits of so-called 'euphoriant' elixirs in the management of p...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Kaiko RF,Kanner R,Foley KM,Wallenstein SL,Canel AM,Rogers AG,Houde RW

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies of pain and nociception use short-lasting acute stimuli which may have limited relevance to prolonged or chronic pain states. Using extracellular single-unit recording in the dorsal horn of the rat lumbar spinal cord the present study examines the response of neurones to a long-lasting nociceptive stimulu...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Dickenson AH,Sullivan AF

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to an earlier published paper by Fordyce, some assumptions underlying the behavior management paradigm of chronic pain are critically discussed. While operant treatment has proved successful, the conclusion that operant factors play an important role in the development and maintenance of chronic benign pai...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Schmidt AJM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short form of the McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) has been developed. The main component of the SF-MPQ consists of 15 descriptors (11 sensory; 4 affective) which are rated on an intensity scale as 0 = none, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate or 3 = severe. Three pain scores are derived from the sum of the intensity rank valu...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Melzack R

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat beam dolorimeter (HBD) was developed to evaluate cutaneous pain thresholds in humans. In the present study, the hypothesis that a patient's underlying pain status affects his pain tolerance to an incident HBD stimulus was tested. Twenty-seven chronic pain patients with a variety of clinical problems unrespons...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Lipman JJ,Blumenkopf B,Parris WCV

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison between 102 depressed and 101 non-depressed pain patients, identified with the use of DSM-III criteria, showed that depressed patients were more often elderly and employed as compared to non-depressed patients who were significantly more often found to be younger (P less than 0.001) and were students (P l...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Chaturvedi SK

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred consecutive patients attending a psychiatric clinic were examined in order to ascertain the prevalence of chronic pain in various psychiatric illnesses and demographic categories. Chronic pain was found to be a frequent symptom in anxiety neurosis (60%), neurotic depression (45%) and hysteria (24.3%). Les...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Chaturvedi SK

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse burning dysesthetic sensations distal to the level of spinal injury are the most common and disabling painful sequelae of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). In a cross-sectional study of 19 SCI patients, clinical characteristics and results of 3 validated pain measurement instruments (McGill Pain Questionnair...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Davidoff G,Roth E,Guarracini M,Sliwa J,Yarkony G

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different modes of cutaneous sensory reinnervation are thought to be engaged following nerve injury: regenerative growth of the injured nerve and 'collateral sprouting' of neighboring intact nerves. Although both processes are well known from experimental preparations, there is little unequivocal documentation of ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Inbal R,Rousso M,Ashur H,Wall PD,Devor M

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although trigeminal neuralgia and atypical facial pain can usually be distinguished on the basis of several well-established criteria, differential diagnosis is difficult in a small number of patients. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) is capable of discriminating b...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Melzack R,Terrence C,Fromm G,Amsel R

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that a number of peptides may be involved in the transmission of pain. In order to evaluate the possible role of peptides in the development of headache, we have, in the present study, examined the presence of nerve fibres containing neuropeptide Y (NPY), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), subs...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Uddman R,Edvinsson L,Jansen I,Stiernholm P,Jensen K,Olesen J,Sundler F

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment and development of pain in children is reviewed in the first part of a two-part series. Assessment of pain in children has relied on self-report measures that have included visual analogue procedures using concrete stimuli for ratings. Behavioral assessment procedures are more sophisticated, but researc...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Lavigne JV,Schulein MJ,Hahn YS

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in the treatment of chronic stable severe angina pectoris. In a short-term study the effect of TENS was studied in 10 male patients with angina pectoris (functional class III and IV). All patients had previously b...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Mannheimer C,Carlsson CA,Vedin A,Wilhelmsson C

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal ascending pathways responsible for neuronal ventrobasal (VB) thalamic responses elicited by joint stimulation of the posterior paw were determined in arthritic rats used as a model of experimental pain. Responses of a same neurone to mechanical (movement--pressure--brushing) or thermal stimulation (50 degre...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Guilbaud G,Peschanski M,Briand A,Gautron M

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty adult patients with chronic pain and substance dependence were admitted to an inpatient unit for treatment of addiction without primary emphasis on treatment of pain. As a group they had received considerable medical attention for their pain, but relatively little for their addictions. When compared with a group...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Finlayson RE,Maruta T,Morse RM,Swenson WM,Martin MA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive strategies have received considerable interest in pain management, alongside the traditional approaches of physical intervention and behavior modification. However, the literature on these strategies is ridden with inconsistencies of terminology that present major difficulties in the conceptualization and ev...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Fernandez E

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large sample of staff physicians and residents (n = 193) responded to a questionnaire in which they were asked to rate 10 pain descriptors for level of applicability to 4 common acute and chronic pain syndromes. The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which physicians would agree on the ratings, and wh...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Tearnan BH,Dar R

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular head pain is thought to result from activation of trigeminal sensory nerve fibers innervating cranial blood vessels. Support for this hypothesis was sought by searching in the trigeminal brain-stem subnucleus caudalis (SNC) for neuronal responses evoked by electrical stimulation of the middle meningeal artery...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Davis KD,Dostrovsky JO

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-eight patients maintained on opioid analgesics for non-malignant pain were retrospectively evaluated to determine the indications, course, safety and efficacy of this therapy. Oxycodone was used by 12 patients, methadone by 7, and levorphanol by 5; others were treated with propoxyphene, meperidine, codeine, pen...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Portenoy RK,Foley KM

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study utilized recently developed diagnostic tests that permit recognition of functional deficits in spine mobility, trunk strength, endurance, coordination, and dynamic lifting capacity. Changes in these tests were compared to changes in psychological functioning (e.g., self-report of pain) as well as to ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Mayer TG,Gatchel RJ,Kishino N,Keeley J,Mayer H,Capra P,Mooney V

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of vibratory stimulation on muscular pain threshold were investigated in 28 healthy subjects. Pain sensation was evaluated by the subjects' verbal reports in response to electrical stimulation of the vastus medialis muscle. Concomitant variations of blink response evoked as a component of the startle react...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Pantaleo T,Duranti R,Bellini F

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between personality characteristics and the psychological functioning of headache patients has long been a topic of interest. Early investigations focused on clinical and anecdotal reports while recent research has moved toward a more objective evaluation of headache groups by using the MMPI. However, the...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Williams DE,Thompson KJ,Haber JD,Raczynski JM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled clinical trial on the efficacy of a nortriptyline-fluphenazine combination was carried out in patients with painful diabetic polyneuropathy. A visual analog scale was used to evaluate the relief of pain or paresthesia. Significant relief of both pain and paresthesia was obtained with this combination. The...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Gomez-Perez FJ,Rull JA,Dies H,Rodriguez-Rivera GJ,Gonzalez-Barranco J,Lozano-Castañeda O

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper describes the pain reducing effect of high and low frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) and 100 Hz mechanical vibratory stimulation as compared to placebo stimulation of the HoKu point in 50 patients suffering acute oro-facial pain. Ten of the 30 patients receiving actual stim...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Ekblom A,Hansson P

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although perceived control has been used as a means of reducing the reaction to pain, conceptually, much is still unclear. The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of control as a mediating variable in the reaction to pain as a function of the predispositional variables of perceived self-efficacy and trait...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Weisenberg M,Wolf Y,Mittwoch T,Mikulincer M,Aviram O

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portable constant current electrical stimulator with bipolar felt disk electrodes was developed for quantitative assessment of cutaneous sensibility. The new method was used in the measurement of thresholds for perception and pain in healthy volunteers. The mean values of the threshold for perception in different ar...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Laitinen LV,Eriksson TA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats anaesthetised with Saffan (Glaxovet), inhibition of the tail flick reflex evoked by electrical stimulation in the dorsal periaqueductal grey matter (PAG) was accompanied by an increase in blood pressure, tachycardia, vasodilatation in hind limb muscle, an increase in respiration, pupillodilatation and widening...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Lovick TA

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the psychological characteristics of a large sample of chronic headache cases (n = 360), including classical and common migraine and tension headache sufferers, was carried out. Comparing groups defined in terms of the chronicity of their headache problems, it was found that those with a longer history of ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Philips HC,Jahanshahi M

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between chronic pain and depression has become enmeshed in the literature. In an attempt to unravel the relationship between chronic pain and depression, the authors studied a uniform group of 80 chronic back pain patients with and without depression using the dexamethasone suppression test (DST). The...

journal_title：Pain

authors： France RD,Krishnan RRK

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in perception of pure thermal stimuli delivered to the hand at threshold intensity were observed during ischemic nerve block in 27 healthy subjects in order to study the significance of unmyelinated cutaneous cold receptors for thermal sensibility. Paresthesias and an increasing feeling of numbness were follow...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Fruhstorfer H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ectopically generated and antidromically conducted nerve impulses were recorded in 5 patients with tungsten microelectrodes inserted into skin nerve fascicles. All patients had mainly positive sensory symptoms and reported paresthesiae which could be provoked by different maneuvers which suggested increased mechanosen...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Nordin M,Nyström B,Wallin U,Hagbarth KE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological evidence has been obtained suggesting the presence of reciprocal excitation between descending pathways from the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) and adjacent reticular formation (Ret.F) and spinal cord neurones projecting to these brain stem areas. In decerebrate and decerebellate cats, 40 spinal cord ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Cervero F,Wolstencroft JH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two models of the relationship between paraspinal EMG and low back pain have been proposed. Specific predictions arising from these are listed and the literature relating to them reviewed. Recent research on patterns of EMG rather than absolute levels is also discussed. It is concluded that there is no consistent evid...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Nouwen A,Bush C

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study 366 patients suffering acute or chronic musculoskeletal pain of different origin were given vibratory stimulation for the pain. Many of the patients had previously had treatments of various kinds without satisfactory relief. The effect of vibratory stimulation was assessed during and after stimula...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Lundeberg T,Nordemar R,Ottoson D

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to investigate if the concepts pain, ache and hurt differ from each other in intensity and quality and to identify discriminating semantic correlates for each of these concepts. Forty-one nurses with different backgrounds in nursing and 12 patients with chronic pain syndrome were included in the...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Gaston-Johansson F

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research has focused on identification of clinically meaningful subgroupings within the chronic pain population in contrast to prior emphasis on the homogeneity of these patients. The present study investigates site of pain as a potentially useful classification variable for identification of differences among ...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Toomey TC,Gover VF,Jones BN

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study sought to discover whether information clarifying how the analgesic/sedative drug nitrous oxide (N2O) works would result in increased analgesic responses to painful stimuli when various concentrations of N2O were administered. Subjects were provided with high and low levels of information regarding t...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Dworkin SF,Chen ACN,Schubert MM,Clark DW

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is a long-term report on 69 patients undergoing unilateral percutaneous cervical cordotomy for vertebral pain due to neoplastic bone metastases. The pain was unilateral or bilateral and was characterised by a chronic and/or an incident component. Seventy-one per cent (49/69) of the patients benefitte...

journal_title：Pain

authors： Ischia S,Luzzani A,Ischia A,Pacini L

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00