Case studies in neurological pain [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface; Part I. The Biology of Neuropathic Pain: 1. Mechanisms of neuropathic pain; Part II. Focal, or Localized Neuropathies: 2. Pain in carpal tunnel syndrome; 3. Pain and cervical radiculopathy; 4. Pain and diabetic lumbosacral plexopathy; 5. Pain and meralgia paraesthetica; 6. Pain and lyme radiculopathy (Borrelia-associated radiculitis); 7. Neuralgic amyotrophy; 8. Painful radiculopathy associated with herpes zoster infection; Part III. Generalized neuropathies or polyneuropathies: 9. Pain and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; 10. Pain and diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN); 11. Painful idiopathic polyneuropathy; 12. Pain in vasculitic neuropathy; 13. Painful polyneuropathy associated with anti-MAG autoantibodies; 14. Painful polyneuropathy associated with inherited amyloidosis; 15. Small fiber neuropathy in sarcoidosis; 16. Pain and small fiber polyneuropathy in Fabry disease; Part IV. Other Neuromuscular and Neurological Disorders: 17. Pain and proximal myotonic myopathy (DM2); 18. Complex regional pain syndrome; 19. Pain and polymyalgia rheumatica; 20. Phantom pain; Part V. CNS Disorders: 21. Pain in Parkinson's disease; 22. Pain associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); 23. Pain in Brown-Se;quard syndrome; 24. Pain in syringomyelia; 25. Central pain with thalamic infarct; 26. Pain in multiple sclerosis; Part VI. Headache Disorders: 27. Chronic migraine; 28. Cluster headache; 29. Paroxysmal hemicrania; 30. Trigeminal neuralgia; 31. Headache and acute cerebral ischemia; Part VII. Treatment: 32. Therapeutics in neuropathic pain; Index.

"Among all patients with neurological disorders, pain is probably the most common symptom experienced. Identifying, understanding and treating pain is a responsibility of health care providers in all branches of neurology. This text is about pain in neurological diseases, both 'neuropathic' pain that is recognized in sensory neuron disorders but also other types of pain less commonly considered. These latter disorders include for example, pain in Parkinson's disease, ALS and muscle diseases. The text includes specific chapters on mechanisms of neuropathic pain, updated with new ideas on its pathogenesis, and a summary of recent therapeutic guidelines. Most of the text however centers on actual patient encounters at the Neurology clinics of the Universities of Wurzburg and Calgary. This emphasis is to make the vignettes relevant to clinical practitioners but also to introduce researchers and workers in industry to the complex and challenging issues faced during direct patient encounters. Therapeutic failures are common among our vignettes, highlighting the fact that current therapeutic advances remain inadequate-a challenge for researchers to find better approaches"--Provided by publisher.