Review Article
Myofascial Pain – An Overview
The skeletal muscle is the single largest organ in our human body. It accounts for nearly 50% of our body weight. Any of these...
A Brief Review of Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation
In 2005, accidents accounted for 4.9% (795) of deaths and were the fifth most common cause of death locally. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is...
Botulinum Toxin for Post-stroke Spastic Hypertonia: A Review of its Efficacy and Application in...
Botulinum toxins (BTX) have revolutionised the management of focal spastic hypertonia in a variety of neurologic diseases. Prior to the introduction of BTX for...
Drug Use and Dosing in Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important therapeutic problem. There is an increasing realisation that renal impairment is under-diagnosed, and this has led to...
Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain
In 1967, Shealy1first introduced dorsal column stimulator for patients suffering from terminal cancer pain based on the gate control theory of pain proposed by...
The Role of Interventional Therapies in Cancer Pain Management
Pain is one of the most common symptoms experienced by cancer patients around the world at some point during the course of their illness.1...
Computed Tomography Fluoroscopic-guided Percutaneous Spinal Interventions in the Management of Spinal Pain
Pain arising from the spine constitutes the majority of chronic pain disorders with the lifetime prevalence of 54% to 80%.1 Detailed history taking and...
Use of Antidepressants in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Pain, as defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain, is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential...
Clinical Aspects and Management of Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) has been referred to as a medically unexplained syndrome;1,2 a rheumatological entity described in rheumatology textbooks and taught to all training...
The Role of Opioids in Managing Chronic Non-cancer Pain
The past half-century has seen a revolution in how we approach pain with the rethinking of the organisation of pain management. This began when...