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Aug 5, 202415 min read
CRPS - Need to know (2024 update)
Definition | Diagnostic criteria | Epidemiology | Risk Factors | Pathophysiology | Presentation | Examination | Differential diagnosis |...
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robinapark
Mar 13, 20222 min read
Central post-stroke pain. Need to know.
Summary: Central post stroke pain is an often under-recognised and subsequently inadequately treated pain condution. Along with CRPS and...
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robinapark
Apr 20, 20212 min read
Pain in Children
Pathophysiology differences in Children Dorsal horn - Excess of excitatory mechanisms. Inhibition maturation is delayed Little is known...
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robinapark
Apr 18, 20213 min read
Visceral pain
Introduction | Types of nociceptors | Visceral nociceptive pathways | Convergence | Biochemistry of afferents | Central visceral pain...
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robinapark
Mar 29, 20217 min read
Differential diagnosis / clinical reasoning: Back pain
Classifications | Diagnostic approach | Pathophysiology | History taking features | Myofascial pain | Facet arthropathy | Sacro-iliac...
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robinapark
Mar 28, 20216 min read
Parkinsons Disease - Pain
Definition | Diagnostic criteria | Epidemiology | Risk Factors | Pathophysiology | Presentation | Examination | Differential diagnosis |...
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robinapark
Mar 28, 20213 min read
Guillian-Barre syndrome
Definition | Diagnostic criteria | Epidemiology | Risk Factors | Pathophysiology | Presentation | Examination | Differential diagnosis |...
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robinapark
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Syringomyelia causing pain
Definition | Diagnostic criteria | Epidemiology | Risk Factors | Pathophysiology | Presentation | Examination | Differential diagnosis |...
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robinapark
Mar 23, 20211 min read
Lower back pain diagnostics. Need to know
Three key questions when working out a persons back pain: Are the symptoms the patient has reflecting a visceral disorder or a serious or...
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robinapark
Mar 22, 20212 min read
Multiple Sclerosis. Need to know
Definition | Diagnostic criteria | Epidemiology | Risk Factors | Pathophysiology | Presentation | Examination | Differential diagnosis |...
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robinapark
Mar 21, 20215 min read
Trigeminal neuralgia
Definition | Diagnostic criteria | Epidemiology | Risk Factors | Pathophysiology | Presentation | Examination | Differential diagnosis |...
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robinapark
Mar 20, 202110 min read
Peripheral neuropathies
Epidemiology Prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in the general population is 2.4% Increases with age to an estimated 8% in those older...
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robinapark
Mar 17, 20213 min read
Diabetic neuropathy. Need to know.
Definition (Sloan et al., 2018; Rosenberger et al., 2020) Toronto Consensus Panel on Diabetic Neuropathy defined DSPN as ‘a symmetrical,...
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robinapark
Mar 14, 20214 min read
Central post-stroke pain. Need to know.
Definitions/Diagnostic criteria Presentation CPSP is a diagnosis of exclusion Onset in the first days following the stroke is rare,...
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robinapark
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Brachial plexus injury - Pain
Presentation Acute is usually pain in the shoulder or upper arm Insidious may be progressive pain, evolving numbness, weakness of...
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robinapark
Mar 5, 20214 min read
Traumatic peripheral nerve lesions - pain
Presentation - Symptoms occur in the distribution of the affected nerve - Associated pathologies such as nerve compression and CRPS must...
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robinapark
Mar 4, 202110 min read
Spinal cord injury - Pain related conditions
Traumatic or Atraumatic injury Epidemiology - Chronic pain following spinal cord injury effects about 70% of patients (mood, function,...
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robinapark
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Myofascial pain
Musculotendinous pain is the main symptom. Thought to be due to nociception from an abnormally sensitive tight band of soft tissue known...
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robinapark
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Post operative acute pain
Acute pain is 7 days Subacute pain is 7-90 days Chronic pain is 90 days+ Factors that negatively affect postoperative pain intensity...
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robinapark
Jan 31, 20214 min read
Fibromyalgia
Diagnostic criteria: 2016 Fibromyalgia Diagnostic Criteria 1. Widespread pain index (WPI) and symptom severity score (SSS) - WPI≥7 and...
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