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The beneficial effect of positive treatment expectations on pharmacological migraine prophylaxis.

May 24, 2021

Migraine is one of the leading causes of years lived with disability and considered to be a major global health concern. Pharmacological preventive treatment often causes side effects that limit the a...

Public support for harm reduction: A population survey of Canadian adults.

May 20, 2021

We described public views toward harm reduction among Canadian adults and tested a social exposure model predicting support for these contentious services, drawing on theories in the morality policy, ...

Distress tolerance and subsequent substance use throughout high school.

May 20, 2021

To examine the association of perceived distress tolerance-one's ability to endure aversive experiences-with subsequent substance use frequency during adolescence.High school students (N = 3,203) we...

A framework for opioid stigma in cancer pain.

May 20, 2021

Millions of patients with cancer pain are treated with prescription opioids each year. However, efforts to mitigate the ongoing opioid crisis result in unintended consequences with opioid pain managem...

Diagnosis and Management of Headaches in the Emergency Department (ED) in Adults and Children.

May 20, 2021

Headache accounts for a significant number of cases presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) and has a high societal cost, contributed by recurrent ED and clinic visits, and unnecessary diagnostic ...

Noninvasive Neuromodulation in Headache: An Update.

May 20, 2021

Migraine is a common disabling primary headache condition. Although strives have been made in treatment, there remains an unmet need for safe, effective acute, and preventative treatments. The promisi...

Role of Greater Occipital Nerve Block in Headache Disorders: A Narrative Review.

May 20, 2021

The proximity of sensory neurons in the upper cervical spinal cord to the trigeminal nucleus caudalis (TNC) neurons and the convergence of sensory input to TNC neurons from both cervical and trigemina...

Prevalence, burden of disease, and lost in health state utilities attributable to chronic musculoskeletal disorders and pain in Chile.

May 20, 2021

Musculoskeletal disorders are a leading cause of disability adjusted life years (DALY) in the world. We aim to describe the prevalence and to compare the DALYs and loss of health state utilities (LHSU...

Validating the revised Symptom Impact Questionnaire with a proposed fibromyalgia phenotype using experimentally-induced pain and patient self-reports.

May 20, 2021

The Symptom Impact Questionnaire (SIQR), now used for over a decade, has strong psychometric properties based on patients' subjective questionnaire data and correlations with other general measures of...

Fibromyalgia as a Heterogeneous Condition: Subgroups of Patients Based on Physical Symptoms and Cognitive-Affective Variables Related to Pain.

May 20, 2021

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic syndrome characterized by heterogeneous clinical manifestations, and knowing this variability can help to develop tailored treatments. To understand better the heterogen...

Trunk and leg kinematics of grounded and aerial running in bipedal macaques.

May 20, 2021

Across a wide range of Froude speeds, non-human primates such as macaques prefer to use grounded and aerial running when locomoting bipedally. Both gaits are characterized by bouncing kinetics of the ...

A direct excitatory action of lactate ions in the central respiratory network.

May 20, 2021

Chemoreceptors that detect O2 and CO2/pH regulate ventilation. However, recent work shows that lactate ions activate arterial chemoreceptors independent of pH to stimulate breathing. Although lactate ...

Comparison of Functional and Radiological Outcomes of Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion and Posterolateral Fusion Techniques in the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.

May 20, 2021

This study aimed to compare posterolateral fusion with transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (PLF + TLIF) and PLF only in terms of revision surgery rates and complications, as well as functional and ...

"Precision Medicine in Autoimmune Diseases: Fact or Fiction".

May 20, 2021

Much is said about precision medicine, but its real significance and the possibility of making it a real possibility is far from certain. Several studies in each of the autoimmune diseases have provid...

A systematic review and network meta-analysis on the safety of early interventional treatments in rheumatoid arthritis.

May 20, 2021

To evaluate the safety of treatment strategies in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Systematic searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE and PubMed were conducted up to September 2020. Double-blind rand...

Does Tocilizumab have a Role in Dermatology? A Review of Clinical Applications, its Adverse Side Effects and Practical Considerations.

May 20, 2021

Tocilizumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody to the interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor which was first approved for use in refractory rheumatoid arthritis almost a decade ago. Since then, its use has exp...

Longitudinal, bidirectional relationships of insomnia symptoms and musculoskeletal pain across adolescence: the mediating role of mood.

May 20, 2021

Previous studies have established a bidirectional relationship between sleep and pain, and mood has been proposed as a mediator of this relationship. There are only a limited number of longitudinal st...

Risk factors for persistent pain after breast and thoracic surgeries: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

May 20, 2021

Persistent postsurgical pain (PPSP) is common after breast and thoracic surgeries. Understanding which risk factors consistently contribute to PPSP will allow clinicians to apply preventive strategies...

Relationship between gait complexity and pain attention in chronic low back pain.

May 20, 2021

Clinical models of chronic low back pain (cLBP) highlight the role of excessive attention to pain and kinesiophobia on the origin of disability. At the motor control level, various mechanisms are invo...

The Link Between Synovitis & Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis

May 19, 2021

“With an absence of effective, licensed disease-modifying treatments for OA, attention has turned to identifying clinically important targets for clinical trials,” explains Thomas Perry, PhD. “S...

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