Nov 09, 2020

Current pharmacological treatments of Fibromyalgia (FM) are merely symptom palliative, as clinical trials have so far failed to provide overall benefits without associated harms. Polypharmacy often le...

Nov 09, 2020

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has been used as an alternative treatment for pain reduction in fibromyalgia. In this study, in addition to behavioral measures, we analyzed oscillations...

Nov 09, 2020

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), a chronic widespread pain disorder, has been associated with various models of stress, including those that are workplace-related. In a previous study, we have documented ...

Nov 09, 2020

The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is testing whether the Communities that Heal (CTH) intervention can decrease opioid overdose deaths through the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in...

Nov 09, 2020

Up to now, the main focus of analysis has been on determinants of the application for and utilization of medical rehabilitation due to back pain. The prevalence and determinants of motivational and vo...

Nov 09, 2020

The Chinese traditional medicine of Siegesbeckia pubescens Makino (SM), which has the effect of healing rheumatism and promoting joint health, is often used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and ischemic ...

Nov 09, 2020

to explore how patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (CIRDs) coped with their disease during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify possible predictive factors of SARS-CoV-2 infection i...

Nov 09, 2020

Some speculate that excision may lead to elbow arthritis and associated problems; however, evidence supporting these theories is limited. It is hypothesized that radial head excision causes bone densi...

Nov 09, 2020

Endovascular treatment in thoracic aortic diseases has increased in use exponentially since Dake and colleagues first described the use of a home-made transluminal endovascular graft on 13 patients wi...

Nov 05, 2020

To describe the geographic and spatiotemporal distribution of needle reports in San Francisco, and examine spatial relationships between needle reports and needle disposal boxes, needle disposal kiosk...

Nov 05, 2020

It remains unclear whether clinicians can rely on specific symptoms and signs to detect or exclude serious head and spinal injury sustained during near-shore aquatic activities. Our study investigated...

Nov 05, 2020

Finite element (FE) analysis has proven to be useful when studying the biomechanics of the cervical spine. Although many FE studies of the cervical spine have been published, they typically develop th...

Nov 05, 2020

In the case of reduced cellular immunity the previously dormant varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes the characteristic belt-shaped vesicular exanthema of herpes zoster. The initial clinical symptoms o...

Nov 05, 2020

In complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), sensory deficits and/or hyperalgesia often extend beyond the affected limb to encompass other sites on the ipsilateral side of the body. The aim of this study...

Nov 05, 2020

The personalization of neuropathic pain treatment could be improved by identifying specific sensory phenotypes (i.e. specific combinations of symptoms and signs) predictive of the response to differen...

Nov 05, 2020

Mechanism-based classification of pain has been advocated widely to aid tailoring of interventions for individuals experiencing persistent musculoskeletal pain. Three pain mechanism categories are def...

Nov 05, 2020

Microdiscectomy is the current standard surgical treatment for intervertebral disc (IVD) herniation, however annulus fibrosus (AF) defects remain unrepaired which can alter IVD biomechanical propertie...

Nov 05, 2020

Young people who use drugs have a rising hepatitis C (HCV) incidence in the United States, but they may face barriers to testing and treatment adoption due to stigma.We conducted a cross-sectional stu...

Nov 05, 2020

Anaphylactic reactions to antigens in the perioperative environment are uncommon, but they have a potential to lead to serious morbidity and/or mortality. The incidence of anaphylactic reactions is 1:...

Nov 05, 2020

Migraine and severe headache affect approximately 1 in 6 U.S. adults and migraine is one of the most disabling disorders worldwide. Approximately 903,000 to 1.5 million African American (AA) men are a...