Treatment of pain in the gastrointestinal system:

weI will explain this briefly before it is asked why we, plastic surgeons, would write about pain in the gastrointestinal system.  In the U.S. and Europe, Botox is used to treat pain after operations of, for example, anal fissure and hemorrhoids, as well as Achalasia, a condition where the muscles of the digestive canal contract too much.   Good results have been obtained in these cases.