Capsaicin patches for neuropathic pain
Introduction
Persistent neuropathic pain treated with capsaicin patches: a novel promising approach.
Neuropathic pain is associated with a functional abnormality of the nervous system due to a direct lesion or disease of the somatosensory system, leading to a continuous pattern of pointless and detrimental pain signal: the pain itself rather than the predisposing condition becomes the main pathological element.…