Using cannabis for pain management after spinal cord injury: a qualitative study.

Study Design: A descriptive qualitative study.

Objectives: To explore why individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) choose to use cannabis to manage their pain and their experiences in doing so.

Setting: Community-dwelling adults with SCI in New Zealand.

Spinal cord stimulation for intractable chronic upper abdominal pain: a case report of the first patient in New Zealand.

We present the first patient in New Zealand to undergo Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) for intractable upper abdominal pain. The patient was a 53-year-old man with a 20-year history of debilitating upper abdominal pain associated with chronic pancreatitis secondary to pancreatic divisum. Prior to the SCS, he was prescribed 680 mg of morphine sulphate equi-analgesia a day.

Perineal pain after rectal amputation: a 5-year follow-up.

A long-term study was undertaken on 286 patients who underwent perineal resection for rectal cancer to ascertain the incidence of chronic post-surgical pain in this group and to determine the likely cause for these pains. In 33 patients (11.5%) experiencing persistent perineal pain over the 5-year follow-up, most (70%) developed pain within weeks after surgery.