Skin Matters: A Review of Topical Treatments for Chronic Pain. Part Two: Treatments and Applications

In Part One of this two-part series, we discussed skin physiology and anatomy as well as generalities concerning topical analgesics. This modality of therapy has lesser side effects and drug–drug interactions, and patients tolerate this form of therapy better than many oral options. Unfortunately, this modality is not used as often as it could be in chronic pain states, such as that from neuropathic pain. Part Two discusses specific therapies, local anesthetics, and other drugs, as well as how a clinician might use specific aspects of a patient’s neuropathic pain presentation to help guide them in the selection of a topical agent.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Pain and Therapy

• Publication date

  2015-01-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1007/s40122-015-0032-zPMID 25630651PMCID 4470969
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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