Feb 04, 2021

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective in the management of chronic widespread pain (CWP); we now test whether it can onset among adults at high risk.A population-based ra...

Feb 04, 2021

To explore the relationship between symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and fibromyalgia (FM). The hypothesis predicated that there would be no significant differ...

Feb 04, 2021

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain and a striking discrepancy between objective signs of tissue damage and severity of pain. Function and structural alterations in brain areas involved in p...

Feb 04, 2021

The opioid epidemic continues and although some initiatives have shown promise in reducing the number of opiates prescribed, few studies have focused on education of general surgery patients about hom...

Feb 04, 2021

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common and debilitating condition that is increasing in prevalence in the world population. Surgical decompression is often standard treatment when conservative measu...

Feb 04, 2021

During the current COVID-19 pandemic video consultations are increasingly common in order to minimize the risk of infection for staff and patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibilit...

Feb 04, 2021

The double oblique osteotomy with rotation of the trapeziometacarpal (TMC) joint procedure (DOOR procedure) is a surgical technique conceived to treat non-traumatic TMC instability, often responsible ...

Feb 04, 2021

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that mainly affects synovial joints. During the course of RA, the synovium transforms into hyperplastic invasive tissue, leading to c...

Feb 04, 2021

This study was performed to test whether ATG16L1 rs2241880, rs6758317 and ATG16L2 rs11235604 polymorphisms were associated with RA and further examine the genetic interaction between ATG16L1 and ATG16...

Feb 04, 2021

After surgery, acute pain is still managed insufficiently and may lead to short- and long-term complications including chronic postsurgical pain and an increased prescription of opioids. Thus, identif...

Feb 04, 2021

The management of acute postoperative pain remains suboptimal. Systematic reviews and Cochrane analysis can assist with collating evidence about treatment efficacy, but the results are limited in part...

Feb 04, 2021

Diabetes is a leading cause of peripheral neuropathy (diabetic peripheral neuropathy, DPN), and uncontrolled long-lasting hyperglycemia leads to severe complications. A major proportion of diabetics d...

Feb 01, 2021

It is increasingly recognized that non-opioid analgesia important analgesia in the perioperative period. Specifically, NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) have been touted as an adjunct or e...

Feb 01, 2021

The purpose of this study is to systematically review the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluate various pain control interventions post-anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), in...

Feb 01, 2021

The opioid epidemic is a public health problem associated with a host of negative outcomes. Although clinicians recognize covariation between opioid misuse with anxiety and depressive symptoms and dis...

Feb 01, 2021

Changes in headache characteristics in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients following oral appliance treatment was investigated for the first time. Thirteen OSA patients with headaches treated with ...

Feb 01, 2021

Cutaneous allodynia (CA) is a pain in response to non-nociceptive stimulation and a marker of central sensitisation. Probable migraine (PM) is a migraine subtype that fulfils all but one criterion of ...

Feb 01, 2021

In this study we used nitroglycerin (NTG)-induced migraine attacks as a translational human disease model. Static and dynamic functional connectivity (FC) analyses were applied to study the associated...

Feb 01, 2021

The Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) is a standardized assessment of hypnotizability featuring a validated 0-10 scoring system, that does not factor in posthypnotic amnesia. Using confirmatory factor ...

Feb 01, 2021

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a generalized, widespread chronic pain disorder affecting 2.7% of the general population. In recent years, different studies have observed a strong association between FM and psyc...