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ArticleBioMed research international2021

Clonazepam: An Old "New" Therapy for the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain-A Brief Report of a Retrospective Study.

Stefano Brunelli, Luca Pratesi, Marco Traballesi

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Article in BioMed research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stefano BrunelliFondazione Santa Lucia, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5986-1564
Luca PratesiFondazione Santa Lucia, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4248-2901
Marco TraballesiFondazione Santa Lucia, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care, Rome, Italy.
Fondazione Santa Lucia · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the results of clonazepam use in the treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP). Although the efficacy of clonazepam on PLP has been reported in 1996, there are no subsequent known studies that confirmed this report. A consecutive sample of 32 patients who suffered from PLP after recent lower limb amputation was studied based on clinical charts. Wilcoxon's signed rank test was used to compare Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) values before and after the treatment with clonazepam. Twenty-three amputees were treated only with clonazepam, without adding other drugs or targeted rehabilitation treatments. The median NRS before the treatment with clonazepam was 7 (2), the median NRS after 31 ± 5 days of treatment was 3 (3.5) (

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ClonazepamFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPainPhantom LimbRetrospective StudiesClonazepam

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PMID34621901
PMCPMC8492268
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