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Pathobiology of neuropathic painM Zimmermann
Neuroscience and Pain Research Institute, Berliner Strasse 14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Eur J Pharmacol 429:23-37. 2001..The cellular pathobiology including apoptosis suggests future strategies against neuropathic pain that emphasize preventive aspects...
[Chronic pain. Epidemiology and management in Germany]M Zimmermann
Neuroscience and Pain Research Institute, Heidelberg
Orthopade 33:508-14. 2004..In particular, the GRIP pilot project (Göttingen Intensive Back Project) has resulted in an increased rate (to 200%) of return to the workplace and in a decrease in health system expenses to 50% of the pretreatment level...
[Neuronal mechanisms of chronic pain]M Zimmermann
Neuroscience and Pain Research Institute, Heidelberg
Orthopade 33:515-24. 2004..The tendency of perpetuation inherent to these processes contribute to pain chronicity-can this be halted by preventive treatment strategies?..
[Management of patients with chronic pain syndromes--deficits and perspectives]M Zimmermann
Neuroscience and Pain Research Institute, Heidelberg
Schmerz 15:85-91. 2001..The number of such pain treatment/management facilities still needs to be expanded because "divinum est sedare dolorem"--it is divine to alleviate pain (Galen of Pergamon)...
[History of pain treatment from 1500 to 1900]M Zimmermann
Neuroscience and Pain Research Institute, Bonhoefferstr 17, 69123, Heidelberg, Deutschland
Schmerz 21:297-306. 2007..Today's natural extension of the medical success in controlling acute pain may be seen in the period of pain medicine aimed at understanding and preventing chronic pain...
[History of pain therapy. Pain in a medical, historical and social context]R Sabatowski
, , , Deutschland
Schmerz 21:295-6. 2007
[Twenty years of Der Schmerz. The early years]M Zimmermann
Schmerz 21:291. 2007
[Individual aspects of the quality of life of patients with chronic pain. Observational study of treatment with fentanyl-TTS]M Zimmermann
, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, , Frankfurt
MMW Fortschr Med 147:33-40. 2005..CONCLUSION: Chronic pain can be effectively treated with fentanyl-TTS, which has a very favorable side effect profile. The reduction in pain led to an appreciable improvement in quality of life in all the areas reported bythe patients...
[Medico-legal aspects of the use of fentanyl patches]M Zimmermann
Klinik fur Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Klinikum, J W Goethe Universitat, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt am Main
Anaesthesist 55:706-7. 2006..In cases where problems occur the prescribing doctor will be held responsible...
[Ethic charter of the German Society for the Study of Pain (DGSS)]S Reiter-Theil
Institut für Angewandte Ethik und Medizinethik, Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Schmerz 22:191-206. 2008..Palliative medical care is a basic right of all terminally ill patients. Politics and health care providers must establish prerequisites for adequate pain diagnosis, pain therapy and palliative medicine...
