Mar 11, 2024

Secreted microRNAs (miRNAs) have been detected in various body fluids including the cerebrospinal fluid, yet their direct role in regulating synaptic transmission remains uncertain. We found that intr...

Mar 02, 2024

Despite being widely assumed, the worsening impact of unpredictability on pain perception remains unclear because of conflicting empirical evidence, and a lack of systematic integration of past resear...

Feb 26, 2024

This review aims to analyze the current data for the use of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and highlight the evidence for its efficacy and safety. Pain ma...

Feb 19, 2024

RNA helicases constitute a large protein family implicated in cellular RNA homeostasis and disease development. Here, we show that the RNA helicase IGHMBP2, linked to the neuromuscular disorder spinal...

Feb 19, 2024

The objectives were 1) to synthesize Quantitative Sensory Testing results in Cluster Headache (CH) patients and to identify somatosensory differences from healthy subjects (HS) and 2) between symptoma...

Feb 12, 2024

Breast cancer patients experience treatment-related pain from surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and long-term hormonal treatment, which can lead to poorer outcomes. Patient and family caregivers' psyc...

Feb 12, 2024

Given the limitations of medical treatment for endometriosis, self-management is a critical component of symptom management, and providing patients with information and education is a necessary comple...

Feb 05, 2024

To analyze the effects of pain-predicting factors on patients in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).This is an observational and prospective study.This study was conducted at a University Hospital in...

Feb 05, 2024

Previous epidemiological evidence suggests rheumatoid arthritis is associated with sarcopenia-related features. However, most of the current evidence is from cross-sectional studies, and the causal li...

Feb 05, 2024

A biopsychosocial approach to understand and treat pain is crucial; however, there are limited socially-targeted interventions for adolescents with chronic pain. Peer support interventions implemented...

Feb 05, 2024

Bodily disruptions have been consistently demonstrated in individuals with chronic low back pain. The performance on the left-right judgment task has been purposed as an indirect measure of the cortic...

Jan 29, 2024

Abnormal encoding of somatosensory modalities (ie, mechanical, cold, and heat) are a critical part of pathological pain states. Detailed phenotyping of patients' responses to these modalities have rai...

Jan 29, 2024

Previous studies have established a core outcome set for paediatric chronic pain clinical trials. The aim of this research was to establish which outcomes young people and parents considered important...

Jan 22, 2024

Genomic heterozygosity has been shown to confer a health advantage in humans and play a protective role in complex diseases. Given osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly polygenic disease, we set out to dete...

Jan 22, 2024

The objective of this study was to explore the associations of body mass index (BMI), fat mass index (FMI), skeletal mass index (SMI) and secondary osteoporosis (OP) in patients with rheumatoid arthri...

Jan 22, 2024

Positive emotions are a promising target for intervention in chronic pain, but mixed findings across trials to date suggest that existing interventions may not be optimized to efficiently engage the t...

Jan 15, 2024

To determine the effectiveness of intravenous ibuprofen and acetaminophen as perioperative analgesics in paediatric patients undergoing day- care tonsillectomy with general anaesthesia.The quasi-exper...

Jan 15, 2024

To determine the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and clinical outcomes of children with early onset scoliosis (EOS) treated with magnetically controlled growing rods (MCGR) followed to definiti...

Jan 15, 2024

As the field of arthroscopic hip preservation surgery grows, large high-quality registries represent a foundational study design for establishing whether hip arthroscopy is effective for patients with...

Jan 15, 2024

Chronic pain presents an enormous personal and economic burden and there is an urgent need for effective treatments. In a mouse model of chronic neuropathic pain, selective silencing of key neurons in...