Antidepressants are highlighted as the most successful pharmacological treatment for psychogenic facial pain, independent of their antidepressant effects.
An admirable example of enhancing adherence by offering establishment of regional multidisciplinary pain management a synthesis that allows for the patients' pain beliefs is offered units there are very few in the United Kingdom.by Feinmann et al.9They sidestep the psychological-physical Chronic orofacial pain can be a disturbing problem for divide neatly by offering an explanation of pain that empha-patient and doctor.If attention is paid to reconciling the sises the role of muscular tension in its genesis, then prescribe patient's experiences and expectations of treatment with a the antidepressant dothiepin hydrochloride, emphasising its proposed course of treatment the outcome can be successful muscle relaxing properties.and the prognosis good.These difficult patients can then Antidepressants are the most successful and widely evalu-become a rewarding group to treat.ated drugs used to treat these types of "psychogenic" facial STEPHEN HUNTER pain, and their benefits seem to be independent of any ConsultantinPsychologicalMedicine, antidepressant action.There is no good evidence to support Gwent NP6 I XQ the use of one drug over another, or of particular dosage regimens, although most trials have used doses over the 1 Bonica JJ.Pain research therapy.Past and current status and future needs.In: Ng LKY, Bonica JJ, * * r l r * * t-* r
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