The "two week syndrome" associated with injection treatment for chronic pain--fact or fiction?

Milligan, Keith A; Atkinson, Richard E · Pain · 1991

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Abstract

Many patients attending the pain clinic for regular injections of local anaesthetic state that the pain returned "two weeks" ago. This study demonstrates that 85% of these patients have a "return of pain" interval which coincides with the proximity of their next clinic appointment.

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