Neuropathic pain refers to a specific pain syndrome characterized by pain and sensory
abnormalities in body parts that have lost their normal peripheral innervation or sensory …

Pain usually occurs when a potential tissue-damaging stimulus excites peripheral
nociceptive afferents. When a noxious stimulus activates receptors in skin, muscle, or joint …

Neuropathic pains associated with an injury of the peripheral or central nervous system are
among the most difficult to treat. One of the reasons for the therapeutic difficulties in these …

Neuropathic pain is a disease of global burden. Its symptoms include spontaneous and
stimulus-evoked painful sensations. Several maladaptive mechanisms underlying these …

Peripheral neuropathic pain, that clinical pain syndrome associated with lesions to the
peripheral nervous system, is characterized by positive and negative symptoms. Positive …

Neuropathic pain syndromes—pain after a lesion or disease of the peripheral or central
nervous system—are clinically characterized by spontaneous and evoked types of pain …

Neuropathic pain syndromes, ie, pain after a lesion or disease of the peripheral or central
nervous system, are clinically characterized by spontaneous pain (ongoing, paroxysms) and …

NEUROPATHIC PAIN IS defined as “pain caused by a lesion or disease of the
somatosensory nervous system”(Table 2-1). Neuropathic pain is a clinical description (and …

Neuropathic pain is a clinical entity designating the different types of pain associated with a
lesion of the nervous system including a wide range of pathological conditions from painful …

Neuropathic pain (pain associated with lesions or dysfunction of nervous system) is
relatively common, occurring in about 1% of the population. Studies in animal models …