Med. praxi. 2019;16(3):148-152 | DOI: 10.36290/med.2019.053

Neuropathic pain treatment

MUDr. Marek Hakl, Ph.D.

Klinika algeziologie a preventivní péče, Medicinecare, s.r.o., Brno

Chirurgická klinika FN Brno a LF MU

Neuropathic pain is one of the most difficult pain condition to treat. Many common analgesics are ineffective in treating it. In therapy to the forefront are coming above all mainly a group of drugs from anticonvulsants, anti depressives, opioids with increased affinity to neuropathic pain and lately new topical form of medicaments. Occurrence of the neuropathic pain is increasing exponentially with the age of the patients, and at the same time the tolerance of the patients to anti neuropathic treatment is decreasing. Major benefit to treatment of the neuropathic pain was formation of unified EFNS guidelines on which the national guidelines are based. The most common form of the neuropathic pain are polyneuropathy, trigeminal neuralgia, postherpetic neuralgia or central neurogenic pain.

Keywords: neuropathic pain, anticonvulsants, opioids, guidelines

Received: August 12, 2019; Accepted: September 6, 2019; Prepublished online: September 6, 2019; Published: June 28, 2019  Show citation