May 06, 2021

Rheumatoid arthritis is a kind of chronic crippling disease, the condition is complex, the course of the disease is repeated, seriously affecting the quality of life of patients. Adverse reactions and...

May 06, 2021

The burden of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and RA-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) in recent years has not been well characterized.In this study, we sought to describe RA and RA-ILD-related ...

May 06, 2021

Sympathoneuronal outflow into dorsal root ganglia (DRG) is suggested to be involved in sympathetically maintained chronic pain, which is mediated by norepinephrine (NE) action on DRG cells. The presen...

May 06, 2021

Human fMRI and behavioral studies have established the roles of cortical areas along the sylvian fissure in sensing subjective pain. Yet, little is known about how sensory aspects of painful informati...

May 03, 2021

“Migraine headaches affect more than 12% of the United States population, mostly females, and result in significant impairment of quality of life and loss of productivity,” explains Rushil Shah, M...

May 03, 2021

Depression constitutes the most frequent comorbid condition associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), with prevalence rates ranging from 14% to 48%. This wide range can be explain by several factors ...

May 03, 2021

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) with thrombocytopenia, a rare and serious condition, has been described in Europe following receipt of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (Oxford/AstraZeneca), which u...

Apr 29, 2021

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that features pain as a hallmark symptom. This review summarises progress and obstacles in our understanding of pain mechanisms in arthritis.Pain phenoty...

Apr 29, 2021

Health administrative data provide a potentially robust information source regarding the substantial burden chronic pain exerts on individuals and the health care system. This study aimed to use healt...

Apr 29, 2021

Painful musculoskeletal conditions are common in older adults; however, pain identification, assessment, and management are reported to be suboptimal for people with dementia. Adequate pain management...

Apr 29, 2021

In the context of the opioid epidemic and the growing population of older adults living with chronic pain, clinicians are increasingly recommending nonpharmacologic approaches to patients as complemen...

Apr 26, 2021

To electrophysiologically determine the predominant neural structures activated with cervical epidural stimulation (ES), well-established electrophysiological protocols (single-pulse, paired-pulse, an...

Apr 26, 2021

Chronic pain in childhood is an international public health problem. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to provide a summary of the published evidence of pharmacological, physical, and...

Apr 22, 2021

Wastewater testing offers a cost-effective strategy for measuring population disease prevalence and health behaviors. For COVID-19, wastewater surveillance addresses testing gaps and provides an early...

Apr 22, 2021

The purpose of the current study was to: (1) determine the percentage of new orthopaedic patients reporting their symptoms to be acceptable at presentation, as measured by the Patient Acceptable Sympt...

Apr 22, 2021

to compare the outcomes of single position (SP) circumferential lumbar interbody fusion in lateral decubitus versus dual position (DP) fusion.A systematic literature review was performed in accordance...

Apr 22, 2021

Pain increases with age, disproportionately affects women, and is a major contributor to decreased quality of life. Because pain is dynamic, trajectories are important to consider. Few studies have ex...

Apr 22, 2021

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been suggested as a treatment option for patients with painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN). We conducted a systematic review and undertook a meta-analysis on individual...

Apr 22, 2021

Although effective agents are available to prevent painful vaso-occlusive episodes of sickle cell disease (SCD), there are no disease-modifying therapies for ongoing painful vaso-occlusive episodes; t...

Apr 15, 2021

The fetoscopic approach to the prenatal closure of a neural tube defect (NTD) may offer similar advantages to the newborn compared to prenatal open closure of a NTD, with a reduction in maternal risks...