Zonas neurovasculares, propuesta conceptual en el tratamiento del dolor crónico

• Pedro Marco Aznar ^[1] ; Ramón Foraster Lloret ^[2]
  1. [1] Universitat de Manresa, Universitat Central de Catalunya
  2. [2] OktoClinic Barcelona
• Localización: Diálisis y trasplante: publicación oficial de la Sociedad Española de Diálisis y Trasplante, ISSN-e 1886-2845, Vol. 42, Nº. 2, 2021, págs. 1-7
• Idioma: español
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  • Neurovascular zones, conceptual proposal in the treatment of chronic pain
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  • español

    Distintas disciplinas terapéuticas basan sus efectos en la estimulación de zonas anatómicas precisas. En este artículo se describen las zonas neurovasculares (ZNV), como aquellas localizaciones que, por sus características anatómicas, pueden ser usadas como zonas de especial interés para dichas terapias en especial para el tratamiento del dolor. Los pacientes hemodializados y también los enfermos aquejados de dolor crónico de otros orígenes podrían beneficiarse de tratamientos específicos dirigidos a dichas ZNV.

  • English

    Different therapeutic disciplines base their effects on the stimulation of precise anatomical areas. This article describes the neurovascular zones (ZNV), as those locations that can be used as areas of special interest for different kind of therapies, especially for pain treatments due to their anatomical characteristics- they are precise locations of reduced dimensions on the cutaneous plane and they are also, considered peripheral receptors of the nervous system. So that, not only hemodialysis patients, but also patients suffering from chronic pain of other origins, could benefit from specific treatments directed at these ZNVs.

    In conclusion, in order to optimize the different useful techniques for the chronic pain treatment based on the stimulation of certain anatomical points, the ZNVs are defined as the places that, due to the physical characteristics above mentioned, and the application of a stimulus -which can be invasive or non-invasive, electrical, thermal, chemical or mechanical- can generate therapeutic effects that act by activating the neuromodulation mechanisms of biological systems and are effective, under the appropriate parameters control, in the treatment of chronic pain pathology, hemodialysis and also all other patients with some kind of chronic pain.