Neuralgia following a nerve injury

Often after accidents, trauma or surgery nerves are damaged the pain that is specific to this type of injury is called neuropathic pain or neulagia.Treatment of this type of pain is very different than normal or somatic pain. Since this pain involves damage to nerve tissue treatment is aimed at stabilizing the electrical signals that nerves send to the brain, this is often accomplished by using anti epileptic medications which as a whole work by stabilizing voltage gated channels in nerve membranes and thereby decreasing the pain signal.