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Rivka Adler
Researcher at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Publications - 10
Citations - 571
Rivka Adler is an academic researcher from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Analgesic & Placebo. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications receiving 535 citations.
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The NMDA receptor antagonist amantadine reduces surgical neuropathic pain in cancer patients: a double blind, randomized, placebo controlled trial
TL;DR: It is concluded that amantadine infusion is a safe and effective acute treatment for surgical neuropathic pain in cancer patients and further trials with long‐term oral or parenteral amantADine treatment should be conducted.
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Spinal Cord Stimulation vs. Conventional Medical Management: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Multicenter Study of Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (PROCESS Study)
Krishna Kumar,Richard B. North,Rod S Taylor,Mark Sculpher,Carine Van den Abeele,Marta Gehring,Line Jacques,Sam Eldabe,Mario Meglio,Joan Molet,Simon Thomson,Jim O'Callaghan,Elon Eisenberg,Germain Milbouw,Gianpaolo Fortini,Jonathan Richardson,Eric Buchser,Sherri Tracey,Pascale Reny,Morag Brookes,Salvatore Sabene,Paola Cano,Carol Banks,Louise Pengelly,Rivka Adler,Sophie Leruth,Claire Kelly,Myriam Jacobs +27 more
TL;DR: In this article, a prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter clinical trial that has been undertaken to obtain conclusive evidence of the clinical efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an SCS system in patients with failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) was presented.
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Can personality traits and gender predict the response to morphine? An experimental cold pain study.
TL;DR: The present study confirms the existence of individual differences in response to analgesic treatment and suggests that high HA personality trait is associated with better responsiveness to morphine treatment, and that females respond better than men to both morphine and placebo.
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Can coadministration of oxycodone and morphine produce analgesic synergy in humans? An experimental cold pain study.
TL;DR: Results indicate that at the doses tested, morphine and oxycodone do not produce synergistic antinociceptive effects in healthy humans exposed to the CPT.
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Intravenous lidocaine, amantadine, and placebo in the treatment of sciatica: a double-blind, randomized, controlled study.
TL;DR: Intravenous lidocaine rather than amantadine reduces both spontaneous and evoked sciatic pain, and all three treatments were relatively well tolerated.