[Pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain].

Neuropathic pain (NP), in view of its non-nociceptive component, is not caused by physiological lesions but by problems in the nervous system itself, whether in the central nervous system (CNS) or peripheral nervous system (PNS). This particular action mechanism makes NP a very difficult-to-treat condition, resistant to most of the commonly used analgesic drugs. A recent study stated that NP has an incidence of 1.24% over the general population,...