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...

Oct 30, 2023

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of non-conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (ncs-DMARD) strategies on patients with rheumatoid arthr...

Oct 30, 2023

People with chronic pain tend to interpret ambiguous information as health-related, more so than people without. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ex...

Oct 30, 2023

Neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury is a multidimensional experience that includes sensory, affective, and cognitive components that interact with one another. Hypoexcitation of the medial ...

Oct 23, 2023

Tarlov cysts are known contributors to radiculopathy but are often misdiagnosed and mismanaged due to a paucity of information. This is particularly true of cervical spine Tarlov cysts since most atte...

Oct 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by a deficiency in regulatory T cells (Treg), which play a crucial role in immune regulation. While conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic dr...

Oct 23, 2023

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that results in the deterioration of joint cartilage and bone. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) has been pinpointed as a key factor in RA-relate...

Oct 23, 2023

Cannabidiol (CBD) attracts considerable attention for promoting good health and treating various conditions, predominantly pain, often in breach of advertising rules. Examination of available CBD prod...

Oct 16, 2023

This study aims to evaluate the effect of the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block on the blood cells and the inflammatory markers neutrophil- to- lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet- to- lymphocyte r...

Oct 16, 2023

Objective The daily step count is associated with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, the factors associated with this phenomenon are not yet fully understood. We therefore clar...

Oct 16, 2023

To quantify risks associated with drug utilization in the real world for the treatment of chronic pain (CP), an index called the Medication Quantification Scale (MQS) was developed in 1992 in the Unit...

Oct 16, 2023

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a severe neuropathic facial pain disorder, often caused by vascular or neuronal compression of the trigeminal nerve. In such cases, microvascular decompression (MVD) surge...