The anticonvulsant fosphenytoin is safe and effective in quickly decreasing pain from sudden attacks of acute trigeminal ...

Neuropathic pain, a complex and often debilitating condition, presents a significant challenge to both patients and ...

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) are calling on the federal government to commit about an additional $1 billion in annual ...

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

GPs also believe these clinics fragment and duplicate care. Melbourne GP Karen Price, a former president of the RACGP, runs a large Facebook group of doctors and says the profession is feeling ...

Even though the experience of pain varies from one person to the next, it is possible to categorize the different types of pain. Neuropathic pain is often described as a shooting or burning pain ...

She specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery, treatment of herniated discs, spinal stenosis, cervical and lumbar radiculopathy, spinal and brain tumors, cranial and spinal trauma, trigeminal ...

A Bendigo pharmacist said a program allowing chemists to treat more conditions has been successful in helping regional patients, but its future is uncertain.