Letters
Neuropathic pain
Management is more than pills
BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3502 (Published 01 September 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3502
- Michael Thacker, senior lecturer1,
- G Lorimer Moseley, NHMRC senior research fellow2,
- Herta Flor, professor3
- 1Academic Department of Physiotherapy and Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, King’s College London, London
- 2Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- 3Department of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Heidelburg, Heidelburg, Germany
- michael.thacker{at}kcl.ac.uk
We have one important caveat in relation to Freynhagen and Bennett’s review—that evidence based non-pharmacological treatment for neuropathic pain was absent.1
Several randomised controlled trials show that graded motor imagery reduces pain and disability in chronic complex regional pain syndrome 1 (CRPS1) and phantom limb pain after amputation or brachial plexus …
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