PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Low, Rhonda
AU  - Swanson, Leah A.
AU  - Swanson, David L.
TI  - Notalgia Paresthetica Relieved by Cervical Traction
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2017.06.170156
DP  - 2017 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 835--837
VI  - 30
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/6/835.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/6/835.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2017 Nov 01; 30
AB  - Notalgia paresthetica is a syndrome of unilateral, chronic pruritis that is associated with burning pain, paresthesia, numbness, and hyperesthesia localized to the medial and inferior scapula. The condition does not respond to anti-inflammatory drugs or traditional antipruritic agents and has variable responses to numerous other reported pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. Although the etiology is thought to be nerve impingement, neurologic and musculoskeletal causes are often not considered in the differential diagnosis. We present a report of a woman with a 2-year history of refractory notalgia paresthetica. Based on spinal imaging showing cervical neuroforaminal stenosis, the patient was prescribed a course of cervical traction. Her symptoms resolved and have not returned after 2 years of followup. We believe this is the first case report of successful treatment of notalgia paresthetica with cervical traction.