Central pain syndrome

Novel Treatment Provides New Hope for Relief of Disabling Stroke Pain - Institute of Neurological Recovery

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Pain, Perception, Organ systems, Acute pain, Nociception, Palliative care, Dejerine–Roussy syndrome, Thalamus, Pain management, Central pain syndrome, Stroke, Chronic pain

The publications report rapid and sustained pain relief using a novel method of drug delivery, perispinal administration1, to accomplish effective brain delivery and relief of central pain, without surgery.

Key Points: 
  • The publications report rapid and sustained pain relief using a novel method of drug delivery, perispinal administration1, to accomplish effective brain delivery and relief of central pain, without surgery.
  • Central pain, pain due to injury of neuronal tissue, was first described after stroke in 1906.
  • Previously referred to as thalamic pain, now as central post-stroke pain, it is characteristically chronic, disabling and resistant to all treatment.
  • "This novel treatment provides new hope for the many people who have survived stroke only to find themselves left with agonizing daily pain that does not respond to any treatment," said Dr. Tobinick.

Novel Treatment Provides New Hope for Relief of Disabling Stroke Pain - Institute of Neurological Recovery

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Pain, Perception, Organ systems, Acute pain, Nociception, Palliative care, Dejerine–Roussy syndrome, Thalamus, Pain management, Central pain syndrome, Stroke, Chronic pain

The publications report rapid and sustained pain relief using a novel method of drug delivery, perispinal administration1, to accomplish effective brain delivery and relief of central pain, without surgery.

Key Points: 
  • The publications report rapid and sustained pain relief using a novel method of drug delivery, perispinal administration1, to accomplish effective brain delivery and relief of central pain, without surgery.
  • Central pain, pain due to injury of neuronal tissue, was first described after stroke in 1906.
  • Previously referred to as thalamic pain, now as central post-stroke pain, it is characteristically chronic, disabling and resistant to all treatment.
  • "This novel treatment provides new hope for the many people who have survived stroke only to find themselves left with agonizing daily pain that does not respond to any treatment," said Dr. Tobinick.