pain medicine

pain medicine

Internal medicine A new subspecialty of neurology dedicated to the relief and/or control of pain Pharmacology A popular term for an analgesic Surgical management of pain • Section of peripheral nerve pathway Neurectomy, splanchnicectomy, dorsal rhizotomy • Section of CNS pathway Anterolateral cordotomy, trigeminal tractotomy, dorsal root entry zone lesioning • Procedures to alter affective response to pain Cingulotomy, obotomy, thalamotomy • Section of efferent arc of vasomotor reflex Sympathectomy • Suppression by nonablative techniques Stimulation of peripheral nerve, spinal deep brain, intraspinal drug infusion