อาการปวดประสาท

Key Facts

• Pain from nerve damage rather than ongoing tissue damage
• Can result from surgery, trauma, diabetes, spinal cord disease, amputation (phantom pain)
• Signs: allodynia (pain from normally non-painful stimuli), hyperesthesia, self-mutilation, behavioral changes
• Often not responsive to traditional pain medications (NSAIDs)
• Treatment: gabapentin, amitriptyline, amantadine, pregabalin
• May require multimodal pain management approach
• Species: dogs and cats