The Pain Clinic Back to The Pain Clinic all-issues list Volume 12 Number 2 Issue June 2000 Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) during epidural steroids injection: a randomized controlled trial 77    M. Presser; J. Birkhan; R. Adler; A. Hanani; E. Eisenberg Gabapentin reduces chronic benign nociceptive pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over study 81    Gary J. McCleane Intraoperative neurolytic coeliac plexus block for pain control in pancreatic cancer 87    Andrzej Cichocki; Maciej Hilgier; Jerzy Jarosz; Piotr Sowiski Trigeminal neuralgia: A symptomatic study of 126 successive patients with and without previous interventions 93    David Bowsher Older people with chronic pain: comparison of pain clinic patients with a community based sample 103    Francis T. Kung; Stephen J. Gibson; Robert D. Helme The addition of piroxicam to topically applied glyceryl trinitrate enhances its analgesic effect in musculoskeletal pain: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study 113    Gary McCleane A rare cause of piriformis muscle syndrome 117    W. Olsen; M. Elias Pain relief after simultaneous administration of intravenous buprenorphine and intrathecal morphine in terminally ill patients; A report of two cases 121    D. Beltrutti; D. Niv Letter 125     Book Reviews 127     Calendar of Events 129     Pathophysiology of pain 135    H. O. Handwerker Pathophysiological mechanisms of neuropathic pain 137    R. Baron Sensory testing: importance for diagnosis 141    Michael C. Rowbotham Prediction and prevention of postherpetic neuralgia 143    Robert H. Dworkin Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in neuropathic pain 145    B. Disselhoff Human flexor reflexes - A specific tool for objective quantification of the antinociceptive TENS effect? 147    B. Namer; R. Sittl; J. Ellrich; C. Weidner EEG recordings and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) procedure during transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in patients with chronic pain and controls 149    Patrice Baud; Nadine Grimonpont Treatment of PHN pharmacologic strategies antidepressants, anticonvulsants 151    N. Grieinger Pharmacological strategies in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia: opioids 153    Michael Schäfer Neuropathic pain - Postherpetic neuralgia NMDA-Antagonists 155    R. Likar Lidocaine 157    W. Koppert Can pain treatment of post herpetic neuralgia be prioritized? 159    Michael Stanton-Hicks Computertomographic guided nerve blocks 161    B. Kepplinger Psychological issues in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia 163    Janice M. Livengood Operative treatment of trigeminal neuralgia 165    G. Lanner; M. C. Spendel Invasive strategies for the treatment of PHN: novel approaches 167    Hans Georg Kress Non-opioid analgesics: new developments 171    K. Brune Evaluation of 'mu' versus 'kappa' receptor agonists for preemptive analgesia 173    Ibrahim Abbass Yossef