Abstract Background and objectives: Calcitonin is a polypeptide hormone regulating the metabolism of calcium in the body. For many years calcitonin has been used to maintain and improve bone mineral density and to reduce the fracture rate. Many studies showed that calcitonin had analgesic role in severa...
ABSTRACT The present study investigated the effects of carvacrol on motor and memory deficits as well as hyperalgesia in the 6-OHDA-lesioned rat model of Parkinson's disease. The animals were subjected to unilateral microinjection of 6-OHDA into the medial forebrain bundle and treated with carvacrol (25,...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the application of a noninvasive intervention consisting of a postural modification using personalized models and osteopathy in people with occipital neuralgia. Method: retrospective study of the intervention performed in adult population with occipital neuralgia, consis...
Pruritus represents one of the main clinical complaints in medical practice, and leads to significant impairment of life quality and some discomfort. Although the knowledge of its main primary
and secondary etiologies is well-established in Internal Medicine, especially in Hepatology, its pathophysiologi...
Summary Introduction: Diabetic foot is one of the most serious complications of diabetes affecting about 15% of all diabetes patients, and it is the leading cause of nontraumatic lower limb amputations. This study presents a sociodemographic and clinical characterization of patients with diabetic foot u...
A infecção pelo vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) representa um dos maiores problemas de saúde da atualidade em virtude de seu caráter pandêmico e gravidade. O uso da terapia antirretroviral está associado ao desenvolvimento de diferentes tipos de dor, sendo a dor neuropática uma delas. A d...
El dolor es el síntoma más habitual en la consulta odontológica y el factor causal de mayor importancia y frecuencia para que el paciente acuda en busca de asistencia. En los últimos años los neurólogos han hecho importantes avances en el estudio de los aspectos neurofisiológicos del dolor, referi...
Aproxximadamente un 75 por ciento de los casos responde adecuadamente al tratamiento medico con Tegretol. Cuando el dolor no es controlado medicamente, se recurre a procedimientos mas agresivos, y asi se utilizan los bloqueos nerviosos con inyecciones de alcohol absoluto en las ramas perifericas del trig...
