Nov 19, 2020

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a complex disease that is mainly characterised by chronic widespread pain, fatigue and sleep disturbances and may be precipitated or worsened by many stressors. The aim o...

Nov 19, 2020

The aim of this paper is to explore the connection between symptom and symbol in the body of women suffering from chronic pain, diagnosed as fibromyalgia. The working hypothesis has been that the symb...

Nov 19, 2020

Opiate abuse is prevalent among HIV-infected individuals and may exacerbate HIV-associated age-related neurocognitive disorders. However, the extent to which HIV and opiates converge to accelerate pat...

Nov 19, 2020

We aim at characterising the encoding of bladder pressure (intravesical pressure) by a population of sensory fibres. This research is motivated by the possibility to restore bladder function in elderl...

Nov 19, 2020

 The practice of rooming-in for opioid-dependent infants was introduced as the standard of care at our hospital following a pilot study which demonstrated that such infants had shorter lengths of st...

Nov 19, 2020

Peripheral denervation and pain are hallmarks of small fiber neuropathy (SFN). We investigated the contribution of skin cells on nociceptor degeneration and sensitization. We recruited 56 patients wit...

Nov 19, 2020

Chronic pain is highly prevalent in multiple sclerosis (MS). Pain heterogeneity may contribute to poor treatment outcomes. The aim of this study was to characterize pain phenotypes distributions in pe...

Nov 19, 2020

Chronic pain is a significant comorbid condition among individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). However, due to conflicting perceptions of responsibility, structural barriers, and a lack of widely ...

Nov 19, 2020

When skin abnormalities in patients extend over several dermatomes, disseminated herpes zoster should be suspected. This complication is most often seen in immunocompromised patients.An 87-year-old pa...

Nov 19, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a T lymphocyte-mediated autoimmune disease, although its immune mechanism has not been fully studied. In this study, healthy controls (HC), osteoarthritis patients (OA), a...

Nov 19, 2020

The foundation of the condemnation practices in Post-Mortem Inspection (PMI) of poultry should be based on up-to-date scientific evidence about the cause of infection and hence whether the lesions obs...

Nov 19, 2020

Erenumab is a novel treatment modality with a relatively benign and safe side effect profile, currently approved for the prevention of migraine headache. We present 3 cases with chronic migraine who a...

Nov 16, 2020

Chronic opioid use and polypharmacy are commonly seen in chronic pain patients presenting for spine procedures. Substance abuse and misuse have also been reported in this patient population. Negative ...

Nov 16, 2020

There is paucity of data on the impact of surgical incision and analgesia on relevant outcomes.A retrospective STROBE-compliant cohort study was performed between July 2007 and August 2017 of patients...

Nov 16, 2020

Migraine preventive medications are used to reduce headache frequency, severity, and duration. In patients with chronic migraine (CM), reversion to episodic migraine (EM) is an important treatment goa...

Nov 16, 2020

Cranial hypersensitivity is a prominent symptom of migraine, exhibited as migraine headache exacerbated with physical activity, and cutaneous facial allodynia and hyperalgesia. The underlying mechanis...

Nov 16, 2020

Metformin (biguanide) is a drug widely used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. This drug has been used for 60 years as a highly effective antihyperglycemic agent. The search for the mechanism of ac...

Nov 16, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a frequent comorbidity in patients with chronic migraine (CM). PREEMPT trials, which demonstrated the efficacy of OnabotulinumtoxinA (OnabotA) on CM, excluded patients with FM. O...

Nov 16, 2020

This study aimed to determine the effect of pool gait exercise using fibromyalgia-induced model mice. The sensory threshold, locomotive behavior, electrocardiogram, and onset time after the gait test ...

Nov 16, 2020

The benefits of family-based interventions for patients with musculoskeletal pain have been previously shown in individual randomised controlled trials (RCTs), but no systematic review has summarised ...