Jan 14, 2021

The primary aim of this randomized clinical trial is to investigate the effects of ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) versus ultrasound guided trigger point injections (TPIs) on numer...

Jan 14, 2021

Low Back Pain (LBP) is commonly reported as a very frequent disorder in sports, but its prevalence in runners remains unclear.To determine the prevalence of LBP in a wide sample of Italian runners.A c...

Jan 14, 2021

Due to the elevated presence of cytokines, the expressions of metabolic enzymes and drug transporters are altered in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Given the high incidence of diabetes in patients with RA...

Jan 14, 2021

Inflammation is an underlying cause of or a contributing factor to a number of chronic conditions, including hypertension, insulin resistance, arthritis, and cognitive disorders. A chronic inflammator...

Jan 11, 2021

COVID-19 community mitigation measures (e.g., stay-at-home orders) may worsen mental health and substance use-related harms such as opioid use disorder and overdose and limit access to medications for...

Jan 11, 2021

Headache is an important manifestation during SARS-CoV-2 infection. In this study, we aim to identify factors associated with headache in COVID-19 and headache characteristics.This case-control study ...

Jan 11, 2021

Migraine is a cyclic disorder but also a chronic pain condition. Left-right recognition tasks have been shown to be impaired in patients with chronic pain.To investigate whether laterality judgements ...

Jan 11, 2021

To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the 6-item Identify Chronic Migraine screener (ID-CM[6]), designed to improve the detection of chronic migraine (CM).CM is often undertreated and underdi...

Jan 11, 2021

Insomnia is a chronic condition that occurs a minimum of three times per week over a period of three or more subsequent months. There are multiple causes of insomnia, and even though it is considered ...

Jan 11, 2021

Rheumatic diseases, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), are typically associated with acute pain mainly caused by inflammation. Chronic pain is described as pain lasting at least 3 months. In...

Jan 11, 2021

Millions of opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions are dispensed near end-of-life. After death, patients' unused prescription pills belong to family members, who often save rather than dispose of the...

Jan 11, 2021

Prescription opioids accounted for the majority of opioid-related deaths in the United States prior to 2010, and continue to contribute to opioid misuse and mortality. We used a novel dataset to inves...

Jan 11, 2021

Characterization of sociodemographic and clinical aspects of patients admitted to the Orthopedic Department (OD) after observation in the Emergency Room (ER) with the diagnosis of septic arthritis (SA...

Jan 11, 2021

Pain and depression are episodic conditions that might take a chronic course. They are clearly related, but information on how they influence each other in the process of chronification is limited. Pa...

Jan 11, 2021

During inflammation or tissue injury, pro-inflammatory mediators attract migratory monocytes to inflammatory sites and monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation occurs to activate macrophages. We report ...

Jan 11, 2021

Pediatric uveitis can lead to sight-threatening complications and impact quality of life (QOL) and functioning. We aim to examine health-related QOL (HRQOL), mental health, physical disability, vision...

Jan 11, 2021

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic widespread pain condition of unknown aetiology. The role of temperature in FMS pain has not been reviewed systematically. The goal of this study was to review ...

Jan 11, 2021

Spinal inflammation is a pathophysiological state of neuropathic pain (NP). The subsequent microglial activation and neuroinflammatory response are contributing factors for long-lasting behavioral hyp...

Jan 07, 2021

The use of opioids for the treatment of pain is a risk versus benefit analysis and metabolic disease is an often overlooked variable in the equation and may lead to increased risk of comorbidities of ...

Jan 07, 2021

All four of the adenosine receptor (AR) subtypes mediate pain and have been targeted by pharmacologists to generate new therapeutics for chronic pain. The vanilloid phytochemicals, which include curcu...