Jan 08, 2024

To explore the patient journey of people with fibromyalgia (FM) in Latin American countries in order to identify problems in health care and other areas that may be resolvable.Qualitative study with p...

Jan 08, 2024

The correlation between scoliosis and sagittal curvature of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine have already been reported in previous studies. However, as a part of the spine, the change in cocc...

Jan 08, 2024

Despite the coexistence of bronchiectasis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the poor prognosis associated with the combination of conditions, no longitudinal studies that comprehensively evaluated whe...

Jan 08, 2024

The best available predictors of chronic pain development broadly encompass baseline metrics of cognition (i.e. beliefs/expectations) about the trauma and resulting symptoms. In the context of musculo...

Jan 01, 2024

Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived sensory neurons (hiPSC-SNs) and human dorsal root ganglia neurons (hDRG-N) are popular tools in the field of pain research; however, few groups make use of ...

Jan 01, 2024

The evidence that athletes respond to and report indices of experimental pain differently to non-athlete populations was analysed. Databases screened were SPORTDiscus, PubMED, PsycArticles, the Cochra...

Dec 25, 2023

The role of Galectin-9 (Gal-9) in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the mechanism of action and therapeutic potential of Gal-9 in RA. We de...

Dec 25, 2023

Opioid and nonopioid analgesics are commonly prescribed to young people to alleviate pain. Even short-term prescriptions increase the risk of persistent use and future misuse of potent analgesics, suc...

Dec 25, 2023

Fibromyalgia is a debilitating pain condition for which treatment effects are typically modest. The most evaluated psychological treatment is traditional cognitive behavior therapy (T-CBT), but promis...

Dec 18, 2023

The reliable estimation of the vertebral body posture helps to aid a safe and effective spine surgery. The proposed work aims to present an MR to X-ray image registration to assess the 3D pose of the ...

Dec 18, 2023

This study provides an update on multidisciplinary staffing and clinical activity in Australian specialist persistent pain services. Of the 109 services identified, 57 responded, met inclusion criteri...

Dec 11, 2023

Research documents racial disparities in chronic low back pain (CLBP). Few studies have examined racial disparities in movement-related appraisals and no studies have examined anticipatory appraisals ...

Dec 11, 2023

Chronic pain disproportionately affects middle-aged and older adults in the United States. Everyday discrimination is associated with worse pain outcomes and is more prevalent among adults from racial...

Nov 20, 2023

There has been a dearth of research into the benefits of water-based workouts for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients.This study aimed to compare the effect of Aqua Stretch and Aqua Pilates in improv...

Nov 20, 2023

Patient obesity is a risk factor for poor acetabular cup positioning in total hip arthroplasty (THA).To assess the impact of using a novel, fluoroscopy-based robotic THA system on acetabular cup place...

Nov 20, 2023

Informing patients about potential side effects of pain treatment is a requirement that protects patients and aids decision making, but it increases the likelihood of unwanted nocebo side effects. If ...

Nov 13, 2023

Individuals vary significantly in their pain sensitivity, with contributions from the brain, genes, and psychological factors. However, a multidimensional model integrating these factors is lacking du...

Nov 13, 2023

Both autonomic nervous system dysfunction and immune system activation are characteristic of chronic pain after limb injuries. Cholinergic agonists reduce immune system activation in many settings. We...

Nov 06, 2023

The aim of our work is to assess the prevalence of probable major depressive disorder and/or probable generalized anxiety disorder (pMDD/pGAD) in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis ...

Nov 06, 2023

The current study aims to characterize brain morphology of pain as reported by small fiber neuropathy (SFN) patients with or without a gain-of-function variant involving the SCN9A gene and compare the...