Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Peripheral Nerve Diseases

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for peripheral nerve diseases.

Reviewed August 2011

 

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Title:   Lacosamide for neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antiepileptic drugs like lacosamide are commonly used for treating neuropathic pain, usually defined as pain due to damage to nerves. This would include postherpetic neuralgia (persistent pain experienced in an area previously affected by shingles), pai...
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Treatment for neuralgic amyotrophy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neuralgic amyotrophy is a painful disorder of the peripheral nervous system that occurs in episodes. It affects the arms and shoulders, and leads to muscle wasting and weakness. There has been anecdotal evidence that corticosteroids can have a favourabl...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Treatments that suppress the immune system for neuropathy caused by non-systemic vasculitis (inflammation of blood vessels limited to those supplying the peripheral nerves)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Non-systemic vasculitic neuropathy ('isolated vasculitic neuropathy') is a rare disease causing progressive, disabling, painful loss of sensation with muscle weakness in arms and legs that is often asymmetrical. The diagnosis is made through the finding...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Corticosteroids for treating nerve damage in leprosy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease. Leprosy bacteria cause damage to skin and peripheral nerves which may result in nerve function impairment and disability. Corticosteroids, especially prednisolone, are commonly used for treating nerve damage alth...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Steroids in the treatment of traumatic optic neuropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The optic nerve transmits visual information from the eye to the brain and traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) refers to any injury to the optic nerve secondary to trauma. After the optic nerve has been injured, it becomes more swollen and this can lead to...
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Intravenous immunoglobulin for people with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an illness caused by inflammation of nerves leading to paralysis. It is probably an autoimmune disease and it usually requires a long-term treatment to prevent further disability. There...
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Treatment for meralgia paraesthetica, a condition causing numbness and sometimes pain in the thigh
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Meralgia paraesthetica is a common clinical condition caused by damage to the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh, resulting in pain, numbness and tingling in the front and outer side of the thigh. The diagnosis is easy to make clinically. Although not...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Interventions for preventing neuropathy caused by cisplatin and other tumor inhibiting platinum drugs
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cisplatin and other related platinum drugs used to treat solid tumors are toxic to the nervous system. Most people who complete a full course of cisplatin chemotherapy develop a sensory neuropathy. Symptoms can include tingling in the extremities and nu...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Chinese herbal medicine for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is one of the most common complications of diabetes. It is characterized by a progressive loss of nerve fibres that predisposes the person to painful or insensitive extremities, ulceration and amputation, and results...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Treatment for ulnar neuropathy at the elbow
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow is the second most common form of nerve irritation from a trapped or compressed nerve, after carpal tunnel syndrome. People with the condition normally have tingling of the fourth and fifth finger at night, pain at the elbo...
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Medications for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children with tics
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   As many as half of all children with tic disorders also have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Symptoms of ADHD are often more disabling for children than their tics. Historically, the reported ability of stimulant medications to worsen ...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Exercise for treating people with diseases of their peripheral nerves (peripheral neuropathy)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Peripheral neuropathies are a wide range of diseases (both genetic and acquired) affecting the peripheral nerves. Symptoms can include pain, altered sensation such as tingling or numbness, muscle weakness and fatigue. Exercise therapy, with a view to im...
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Capsaicin applied to the skin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Topical (rubbed on the skin) capsaicin may provide some pain relief in various neuropathic pain conditions, but at the expense of local skin irritation such as burning and stinging. The amount of pain relief experienced remains uncertain because of diff...
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Immunotherapy for diabetic amyotrophy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Results from trials are awaited to show whether corticosteroids, immunoglobulin or other treatments that act on the immune system are beneficial in diabetic amyotrophy. Diabetic amyotrophy or diabetic lumbosacral radiculoplexus neuropathy is an uncommon...
Date:   Apr 2009
Title:   Antiviral treatment for preventing postherpetic neuralgia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a painful condition occurring after herpes zoster (shingles) in which pain persists in the area where the rash emerged. Treatments for PHN are either partially, or totally, ineffective for many people with PHN. Attention ...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Uncertainty about usefulness of antiviral drugs in Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   It seems logical that antiviral drugs might help patients with a herpes virus infection of the ear producing facial weakness (a condition known as 'Ramsay Hunt syndrome'). These drugs often help similar viral infections elsewhere in the body. However, t...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Topical lidocaine (a local anaesthetic) for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia (nerve pain)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Topical lidocaine may benefit some patients on an individual basis though there is stronger evidence for the use of other drugs. Postherpetic neuralgia is a long-lasting pain disorder that causes pain from stimuli that are not normally painful. Local an...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Patient education for neck pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neck disorders, such as whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) and simple mechanical neck pain, are common and mostly resolve on their own but they can be disabling and costly for a small proportion of patients seeking help. A large proportion of direct he...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Corticosteroids used in addition to antiviral drugs in patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ramsay Hunt syndrome (also known as herpes zoster oticus) consists of weakness of the face due to infection with the varicella zoster virus. Five cases arise per 100,000 of the population per year in the US. It is more common among those over 60 and...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Lower limb surgery to release trapped nerves in diabetic neuropathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review analyzed the role of decompressive surgery of lower limb nerves for symmetrical diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy is one of the most common complications of diabetes. Pain and numbness in the feet are common features. Pai...
Date:   Apr 2008

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