Efficacy and Safety of PCA-assisted Continuous Paravertebral Block in Subacute Herpes Zoster-associated Pain: Study Protocol for a Randomized, Controlled, Double-blind Superiority Trial
Bo Yang,
Xiaohan Shi,
Yanan Xu
et al.
Abstract:Background
Pain management for herpes zoster-associated pain (ZAP) is essential to improve patients’ daily lives and potentially intervene in the chronicity. Long-lasting, repetitive painful stimuli might lead to central sensitization and neuropathic pain generation. The subacute phase is the main period for ZAP patients to seek medical attention, and it is also a critical treatment time window for the transformation of ZAP to chronic pathological changes. Although there is still a lack of rigorous considerabl… Show more
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