Chronic neck pain: How to approach treatment

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 436-439

  Borenstein, David G ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CHLORZOXAZONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; GABAPENTIN; LIDOCAINE; METAXALONE; METHOCARBAMOL; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORPHENADRINE; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ERGONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MASSAGE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MONOTHERAPY; NECK PAIN; NEPHROTOXICITY; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SPINE FUSION; TACHYCARDIA; TRACTION THERAPY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WHIPLASH INJURY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; XEROSTOMIA;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; NECK PAIN;

EID: 36849090494     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0230-4     Document Type: Review

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