[Placebo in the pain treatment].

Use of medical preparations having no specific pharmacological activity or dummy procedures administered to patients is known as placebo. Such maneuvers are important in the pain treatment and clinical studies investigating pain mechanisms. Several recent studies have shown that placebo treatment produces measurable psychophysiological effects, characterized by changes in specific brain functions and decreased subjective pain perception.

Efficacy of interlaminar vs transforaminal epidural steroid injection for the treatment of chronic unilateral radicular pain: prospective, randomized study.

Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE, DESIGN AND SETTINGS: The purpose of this randomized, prospective study is to compare the efficacy of two different routes in administering epidural steroid injections interlaminar (IL) vs transforaminal (TF) in patients with unilateral radicular pain.

Patients: We randomly enrolled and followed 64 patients with chronic radiculopathy.

Results: Significant improvements were maintained throughout 6 months (24 weeks) of follow-up (P<0.

[Efficiency of pharmacological treatment of chronic post-traumatic headaches].

Background: Chronic post-traumatic headache (CPH) is a complex clinical entity. The clinical features of CPH are variable and may resemble those of primary headaches (migraine, tension-type headache or cluster headache), as well as of cervicogenic headache. Therefore, the treatment must be individualized according to the headache type.