Spine update: Spinal pain mechanisms

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 98-104

  Siddall, Philip J ^a   Cousins, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

analgesia; nociceptor; pain; pharmacology; physiology; spinal

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPINE; SYNDROME;

HUMANS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; SPINAL CORD; SPINE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030638713     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199701010-00016     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Bach S, Noreng MF, Tjellden NU. Phantom limb pain in amputees during the first 12 months following limb amputation. Pain 1988;33:297-301.
2. Dahl JB, Kehlet H. The value of preemptive analgesia in the treatment of postoperative pain. Br J Anaesth 1993;70:434-9.
3. Devor M. The pathophysiology of damaged peripheral nerves. In: Wall PD, Melzack R, eds. Textbook of Pain. 2nd ed. London: Churchill-Livingstone, 1989:63-81.
4. Dickenson AH, Sullivan AF. Evidence for a role of the NMDA receptor in the frequency dependent potentiation of deep rat dorsal horn nociceptive neurons following C fiber stimulation. Neuropharmacology 1987;26:1235-8.
5. Fields HL, Basbaum AI. Endogenous pain control mechanisms. In: Wall PD, Melzack R, eds. Textbook of Pain. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1989:206-17.
6. Katz J, Jackson M, Kavanagh BP, Sandler AN. Acute pain after thoracic surgery predicts long-term postthoracotomy pain. Clin J Pain 1996;12:50-5.
7. Loeser JD, Cousins MJ. Contemporary pain management. Med J Aust 1990;153:208-13.
8. Loeser JD, Van Konkelenberg R, Volinn E, Cousins MJ. Small area analysis of lumbar spine surgery in South Australia. Aust NZJ Surg 1993;63:14-9.
9. McMahon S, Koltzenburg M. The changing role of primary afferent neurons in pain. Pain 1990;43:269-72.
10. McMahon SB. Mechanisms of sympathetic pain. Br Med Bull 1991;47:584-600.
11. Meller ST, Gebhart GF. Nitric oxide (NO) and nociceptive processing in the spinal cord. Pain 1993;52:127-36.
12. Mendell LM. Physiological properties of unmyelinated fiber projection to the spinal cord. Exp Neurol 1966;16:316-32.
13. North RB, Kidd DH, Zahurak M, Piantadosi S. Specificity of diagnostic nerve blocks: A prospective, randomized study of sciatica due to lumbosacral disease. Pain 1996;65:77-85.
14. Siddall PJ, Taylor DA, Cousins MJ. Classification of pain following spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord. (In press).
15. Stein C, Millan MJ, Shippenberg TS. Peripheral opioid receptors mediating antinociception in inflammation: Evidence for involvement of mu, delta, and kappa receptors. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1989;248:1269-75.
16. Trujillo KA, Akil H. Inhibition of morphine tolerance and dependence by the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. Science 1991;251:85-7.
17. Wilcox GL. Excitatory neurotransmitters and pain. In: Bond MR, Charlton JE, Woolf CJ, eds. Proceedings of the VIth World Congress on Pain. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1991:97-117.
18. Woolf C, Shortland P, Coggeshall RE. Peripheral nerve injury triggers central sprouting of myelinated afferents. Nature 1992;355:75-8.
19. Woolf CJ. Recent advances in the pathophysiology of acute pain. Br J Anaesth 1989;63:139-46.
20. Woolf CJ, Chong MS. Preemptive analgesia: Treating postoperative pain by preventing the establishment of central sensitization. Anesth Analg 1993;77:362-79.