Pain General
Nov 12, 2020
The "funnel effect" of Fibromyalgia (FM) assumes that as patients access healthcare services, they present greater severity and a more complex clinical situation than individuals with FM from the gene...
Nov 12, 2020
Fibromyalgia is characterized by the amplification of central nervous system pain with concomitant fatigue, sleep, mood disorders, depression, and anxiety. It needs extensive pharmacological therapy. ...
Nov 12, 2020
Background and Purpose The therapeutic effects of fluoxetine (FLX) are believed to be due to its potency for increasing neuronal plasticity and reversing some learning deficits. Nevertheless, a growin...
Nov 12, 2020
Foot and leg pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) presents a challenge even with neuromodulation techniques such as spinal cord stimulation (SCS). We report our experience with a novo techniq...
Nov 12, 2020
Board-certified hand surgeons undergo an additional 1 year of fellowship training after completing 1 of 3 residencies, either orthopedic surgery (OS), plastic surgery (PS), or general surgery (GS). Th...
Nov 12, 2020
Emerging evidence suggests that people with arthritis are reporting increased physical pain and psychological distress during COVID-19. At the same time, Twitter's daily usage has surged by 23% throug...
Nov 12, 2020
Persistent or recurrent pain is common among adolescents and is associated with poor functioning. The purpose of this study was to determine whether preteens who present with pain, and higher, co-occu...
Nov 12, 2020
Prevalence estimates of severe chronic pain in pediatric community samples are rare and inconclusive. This study aimed to (1) examine the prevalence of chronic pain severity grades in school children ...
Nov 12, 2020
Threat-induced pain modulation can increase survival by amplifying physiological and behavioral reactions towards danger. Threat can also modulate spinal nociception, suggesting engagement of endogeno...
Nov 12, 2020
With motor vehicle collisions (MVC) predominating as a source of trauma now, we sought to 1) reassess the types of traumatic lumbar spine fractures, 2) highlight the coincidence of transverse process ...
Nov 12, 2020
Palliative care in patients with advanced heart failure is strongly recommended by Clinical Practice Guidelines. We aimed to calculate the prevalence of advanced heart failure in admitted patients, to...
Nov 12, 2020
Pain is a common symptom in patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), which increases synthetic and illicit synthetic opioid abuse and even fatalities due to opioid overdose. Many FDA-approved drugs ar...
Nov 12, 2020
Kadsura heteroclita (Roxb.) Craib (traditionally known as "Xue Tong") is an important member of the economically and medicinally important plant family Schisandraceae. "Xue Tong" is an imperative ingr...
Nov 12, 2020
Establish the impact of pain severity on the cost-effectiveness of generic duloxetine for knee osteoarthritis (OA) in the United States.We used a validated computer simulation of knee OA to compare us...
Nov 09, 2020
To examine opioid prescribing and consumption patterns after hysterectomy and identify factors associated with post-operative opioid consumption.Prospective cohort study.Single university medical cent...
Nov 09, 2020
The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is designed to implement and evaluate the Communities That HEAL (CTH) intervention, a conceptually driven framework to assist communities in selecting and adopting ...
Nov 09, 2020
Headache is a common symptom of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. In this study, we aimed to characterize the phenotype of headache attributed to SARS-CoV-2 i...
Nov 09, 2020
The present Italian multicenter study aimed at investigating whether the course of primary headache disorders in children and adolescents was changed during the lockdown necessary to contain the COVID...
Nov 09, 2020
Primary headaches, and particularly migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) as well as hypothyroidism are common medical conditions. To date, numerous studies have suggested a possible bidirectional ...
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...