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Article: Acute neuropathic pain requires treatment with corticosteroids.(Pain Medicine)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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SAN DIEGO -- Neuropathic pain can be acute instead of chronic, and treatments for the two differ. Scott M. Fishman, M.D., said at a psychopharmacology congress sponsored by the Neuroscience Education Institute.
"There seems to be a prevalent belief that neuropathic pain is only a disorder of chronic illness," said Dr. Fishman, chief of the pain medicine division and professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of California, Davis.
Few physicians appear to know that the proper treatment for acute neuropathic pain is corticosteroids, not the anticonvulsants, antiarrhythmics, or antidepressants used conventionally for chronic ...