title: Surgery for leg numbness with back pain, patient controlled analgesia, phantom limb pain.
abstract: This feature presents information for patients in a question and answer format. It is written to simulate actual questions that many pain patients ask and to provide answers in a context and language that most pain patients will comprehend. Issues addressed in this issue are why back pain surgery may relieve leg numbness but not the associated back pain, patient controlled analgesia, and phantom limb pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California at Davis, USA. smfishman@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Scott M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fishman
mesh_terms: D016058:Analgesia, Patient-Controlled; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001416:Back Pain / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010591:Phantom Limb / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants