Dr Mailis-Gagnon Answers your questions on Neuropathic Pain

I have treated personally a few PPS patients and in some with diffuse muscle pain, pregabalin, a medication against seizures approved also for certain forms of neuropathic pain, as well as for fibromyalgia, has been helpful.

For more information see:
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/post_polio/post_polio.htm

http://www.post-polio.org

http://www.marchofdimes.com

In subsequent issues of the newsletter, I will cover many other topics (since readers asked), including knowledge about basic mechanisms of pain and different types of pain syndromes, including the subject of Fibromyalgia. Readers who are interested in obtaining copies of my previous articles can log at Carp.ca and search for Neuropathic pain. You can obtain also a lot of information on neuropathic pain at www.actionontario.ca.

Keywords: pain, treatment