Article: Neurology journal publishes pain management guidelines.

2003 DEC 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- First-of-a-kind pain guidelines, developed by leading international experts in pain management, are published in the most recent issue of Archives of Neurology.

The evidence-based guidelines are designed to help physicians better diagnose and manage patients suffering from chronic neuropathic pain.

"Neuropathic pain is defined as pain caused by a lesion or dysfunction to the peripheral or central nervous system," said Robert H. Dworkin, PhD, professor of anesthesiology, neurology, oncology, and psychiatry, director, Anesthesiology Clinical Research Center at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and ...

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