Neuraltherapy

BACKGROUND: Localized vulvar pain (LVP) is a common condition among fertile women, with physical and psychosexual implications. Treatment is complex with limited benefits. Neural therapy is a regulatory therapy that uses injections of local anesthetics in low concentrations in specific points to treat different conditions. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the cases of 5 women, ages 33-44 years, with LVP treated with procaine 0.5% injections in painful points. Complete relief from pain occurred in 2 patients, and significant improvement in 3...

Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMJD) include temporomandibular joint dysfunction and bruxism. Sacroiliac joint dysfunction (SJD) is a frequent cause of non-discogenic low back pain. Studies suggest a relationship between TMJD and SJD; however, the link remains unclear. Neural therapy (NT) utilises local anaesthetic injections to treat pain by normalising a dysfunctional autonomic nervous system held responsible for initiating or propagating chronic pain. A 31-year-old female presented with a 1-year history of mechanical left-sided low back pain and sleep bruxism...

Hintergrund: Procain besitzt wie das strukturverwandte Cocain zentralnervöse Wirkungen unabhängig von seinem lokalanästhetischen Effekt. Procain-Infusionen werden Patienten mit psychovegetativen Störungen seit Jahrzehnten verabreicht, zumeist im Rahmen einer Neuraltherapie. Untersuchungen zur Wirksamkeit einer alleinigen Gabe von Procain im Praxisalltag stehen aus. Patienten und Methoden: Im Rahmen einer Anwendungsbeobachtung (AWB) wurde bei 56 Patienten aus 3 Arztpraxen die Wirkung von intravenösen Procain-Infusionen (1-3 Ampullen à 5 ml einer 2%igen Procain-Lösung in 250 ml Natriumchlorid pro Arztbesuch) auf das somatische und psychovegetative Befinden dokumentiert...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the attitudes of physicians, nurses, physical therapists, and midwives toward complementary medicine (CM) at a Swiss academic hospital and toward its use for treating chronic pain. DESIGN: The cross-sectional survey took place from October to December 2013. SETTING: An e-mail sent to 4925 healthcare professionals (1969 physicians, 2372 nurses, 145 physical therapists, and 111 midwives) working at Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, invited them to answer a web-based questionnaire...

BACKGROUND: We report about a 39-year-old patient, who was injured by a gunshot which penetrated the abdominal wall and the rectum. As a consequence, he developed a chronic pain syndrome with persistent severe rectal pain during and up to 30 min after defecation. Outpatient treatment for more than 10 years with analgetic agents, glucocorticoids, and salicylates did not show sufficient therapeutic benefit. CASE REPORT: During flexible rectoscopy, a rectum scar was located and a local injection of procaine into the rectum scar was performed...

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OBJECTIVE: Assessment of the outcomes on the articular and periarticular pain of the knee, by a reflexotherapy with local anesthetics, denominated also neuraltherapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Retrospective observational study with 3 years' follow-up. ENVIRONMENT: An Ambulatory Center for Pain Management. PATIENTS: All the patients (N = 115) with knee pain treated with neuraltherapy in the period 1982-31 August 1996 (retired patients 2, mean age 68 +/- 15...

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