Neuropathic low back pain

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 168-177

  Audette, Joseph F ^a   Emenike, Emmanuel ^b   Meleger, Alec L ^b  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CAPSAICIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; CLONAZEPAM; CLONIDINE; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; DULOXETINE; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIATE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PAROXETINE; PHENYTOIN; STEROID; TIAGABINE; TIZANIDINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRAMADOL; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ACUPUNCTURE; AGITATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARACHNOIDITIS; ARTHROPATHY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BLOOD DYSCRASIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; EXERCISE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GINGIVA HYPERTROPHY; GLAUCOMA; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMPOTENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LEUKOPENIA; LIGAMENT RUPTURE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MOOD DISORDER; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; OSTEOMALACIA; PANCREATITIS; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; REVIEW; SACROILIITIS; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 21044433911     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-005-0058-8     Document Type: Review

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