Pain General
Aug 19, 2021
In an effort to expedite the publication of articles related to the COVID-19 pandemic, AJHP is posting these manuscripts online as soon as possible after acceptance. Accepted manuscripts have been pee...
Aug 19, 2021
Patients with migraine suffer from high morbidity related to the repeated headache attacks, characteristic of the disorder, poor sleep, and a high prevalence of comorbid psychosocial disorders. Curren...
Aug 19, 2021
Large placebo responses often negatively affect randomized controlled trials within the pain area. Understanding different possible factors that influence the placebo response is therefore important. ...
Aug 19, 2021
Chronic neuropathic pain (NP) is a common and often debilitating secondary condition for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) and is minimally responsive to existing pharmacological and nonpharmacolo...
Aug 17, 2021
“Tinnitus is a condition that affects approximately 10% of the adult population in the United States and can diminish one’s quality of life,” explains Hamid R. Djalilian, MD. “To date, there a...
Aug 16, 2021
Individuals who initiate injection drug use often receive assistance from an injection-knowledgeable peer. Persons who assist peers in injection initiation events often inject frequently, which height...
Aug 16, 2021
In this study, a rapid liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method has been developed and validated for the targeted analysis of 98 New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) from the hair...
Aug 16, 2021
One of the common disorders in people with quadriplegia is having a weak grip strength that can affect activities of daily living (ADL). This study presents the design of a soft robotic glove via pneu...
Aug 16, 2021
Altered brain structure and function is evident in adults with multisite chronic pain. Although many such adults trace their pain back to childhood, it has been difficult to disentangle whether centra...
Aug 16, 2021
Concomitant use of pregabalin with opioids and/or benzodiazepines is common, despite the increased risks. However, clinical trials suggest pregabalin can have an opioid-sparing effect when treating ac...
Aug 16, 2021
The Dysfunctional Chronic Pain (Dysfunctional CP) phenotype is an empirically-identifiable CP subtype with unclear pathophysiological mechanisms that cuts across specific medical CP diagnoses. This st...
Aug 12, 2021
“For most patients, pain control remains unsatisfactory,” explains Feng Pan, PhD, MMed, MBBS. “The few pharmacologic analgesic options available have limited efficacy and carry a substantial ris...
Aug 12, 2021
Long-term potentiation (LTP) of synaptic transmission is considered to be a cellular counterpart of learning and memory. Activation of postsynaptic NMDA type glutamate receptor (NMDA-R) induces traffi...
Aug 12, 2021
Spinal cord injury (SCI), as one of the intractable diseases in clinical medicine, is afflicting thousands of human beings, and the pathological changes after the injury have been a hot spot for explo...
Aug 12, 2021
Endogenous pain modulation, as tested by the conditioned pain modulation (CPM) protocol, is typically less efficient in chronic pain patients compared to healthy controls. We aimed to assess whether C...
Aug 09, 2021
“Discrimination negatively influences health and well-being in the general population, but its impact on people with pain is unclear,” explains Ruth A. Hackett, PhD. “Therefore, it is important ...
Aug 09, 2021
Herbal beverages have been used as a natural part of the medicinal and food culture in northwestern Argentina. The flower beverages (infusion or decoction) of Acacia caven, Geoffroea decorticans and L...
Aug 09, 2021
Chronic spinal pain poses complex challenges for healthcare around the world and is in need of effective interventions. Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) is a promising intervention hypothesized to im...
Aug 08, 2021
“Migraine, which affects more than 1 billion people worldwide, is one of the leading causes of disability in people younger than 50,” says Keisuke Suzuki, MD, PhD. “In addition to moderate-to-se...
Aug 05, 2021
Men with Peyronie’s disease (PD) typically present with complaints of penile deformity, but some patients also report suffering from pain and erectile dysfunction (ED). “There is a common misconc...