Pain clinic treatment is effective There is an 83-year-old woman in Fengxian Xinshi who has been tormented by severe pain after herpes zoster in her lower back for nearly 30 years and has sought medical help everywhere and used all kinds of prescriptions, local remedies, traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, still unable to relieve the pain. According to her family members, she used medicines that could be packed in a truck. Later, she happened to read from Shanghai Public Health News that the pain clinic of Fengxian District Central Hospital could treat this stubborn pain, and came to the pain clinic of the Central Hospital with the idea of trying it out. Herpes zoster is an acute inflammatory skin disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, commonly known as “snake sores”, “tangled waist fire sores”, “spider sores” and “fire sores”. It is commonly known as “snake-tan”, “tangled fire-tan”, “spider sores” and “fire-tan sores”. In addition to the typical skin rash, neuralgia is another characteristic of this disease. Generally, neuralgia is present 2 to 3 days before and after the appearance of the rash, and the degree of pain varies and is not necessarily related to the severity of the rash. In elderly patients, the pain is mostly severe and even unbearable. And about 30% of middle-aged and elderly patients may have persistent local neuralgia after the rash has completely subsided, often lasting for months to decades, which is medically known as postherpetic neuralgia. Why do some people develop postherpetic neuralgia and others do not? The key is that most people only focus on the treatment of localized herpes and ignore the concurrent neuralgia, so in addition to visiting a dermatologist after a herpes attack, it is important to seek further treatment at a pain clinic in a timely manner so as to minimize the appearance of post-herpetic neuralgia. This disease is currently a medical problem, commonly known as the “undead disease”. What should be done after the onset of posterior neuralgia? Although this disease is a medical problem, it is not incurable. At present, the pain clinic of Fengxian District Central Hospital can adopt a combination of medication, ultra-laser physical therapy, local nerve block, subcutaneous nerve interference, nerve radiofrequency destruction and other methods to achieve better treatment results.