BACKGROUND Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) commonly presents with motor weakness and neurological symptoms and signs that include loss of tendon reflexes. However, patients with GBS also experience ...

Excluded were those with diabetes and chronic renal insufficiency, painful diabetic plexopathy, or lumbosacral polyradiculopathy, peripheral vascular disease, another painful condition, or other cause ...

Although pregabalin is mechanistically similar to gabapentin and shares similar advantages, such as a lack of pharmacokinetic interactions with other medications or enzyme induction, there are ...

For the first time in decades, a new class of painkiller has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

There are several symptoms of a pinched nerve in the neck, and the pain is usually on one side—the same as your pinched nerve. The pain can spread down from the back of your skull to between the ...

After talking to your physician, there are a few things you can do to cope with shingles at home. Use calamine lotion on ...

If a rash has recently appeared on your body, you may suspect you have shingles. Generally, shingles lasts an average of four weeks. Shingles is known for the painful rash it causes, and it can appear ...

1 Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark 2 Center for Sensory-Motor Interactions, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, ...

Gabapentinoids are increasingly prescribed as an alternative to pain medicines for nursing home residents, but the reasoning behind the prescriptions — and beliefs about efficacy and deprescribing — ...

If you are living with pain, adding herbs to your regimen may help ease your discomfort, especially when combined with regular exercise, diet, and relaxation techniques. Inflammation is the body's ...

Typical symptoms include an irresistible urge to move your legs, alongside sensations of aching, crawling, creeping, itching, ...

Introduction: Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting longer than 3 months. This often causes persistent emotional distress and functional disability that is refractory to conventional treatments.