Greater Occipital Nerve Block Effective for Acute Relief of Refractory Migraine
The treatment may be beneficial in patients whose acute migraine does not respond to standard treatment with intravenous metoclopramide.
The treatment may be beneficial in patients whose acute migraine does not respond to standard treatment with intravenous metoclopramide.
The use of transnasal sphenopalatine ganglion block is safe and effective for providing short-term relief from acute migraine headaches.
Ultrasound-guided pulsed radiofrequency applied to intercostal nerves may be safe and effective for managing thoracic postherpetic neuralgia-associated pain.
Manual trigger point treatments of head and neck muscles may be associated with reductions in the duration, frequency, and intensity of tension-type headache and migraine headache attacks.
Education combined with exercise as well as a single corticosteroid injection may be more effective than a wait-and-see approach for alleviating gluteal tendinopathy-associated pain.
Genicular nerve cooled radiofrequency ablation may effectively relieve chronic knee pain associated with osteoarthritis and improve function for up to 6 months.
Addition of an interspace between the popliteal artery and capsule of the posterior knee block and adductor canal block to periarticular injection is associated with less pain after total knee arthroplasty.
Sciatic nerve block may represent an effective complement to femoral nerve block for total knee arthroplasty.
Targeted indwelling caudal epidural steroid injection in combination with a four-step manipulative therapy may be a safe and effective method for reducing pain intensity and functional disability in patients with symptomatic lumbar disc hernia.
Addition of a stellate ganglion block to a cervical paravertebral block during arthroscopic shoulder surgery may not result in improved analgesia.