Pain General
Aug 13, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented increased usage of Personal protective equipment (PPE) by healthcare-workers. PPE usage causes headache in majority of users. We evaluated changes in...
Aug 13, 2020
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psychological intervention that involves development of coping strategies to reduce the experience of pain. Although CBT is a promising intervention to reduce h...
Aug 13, 2020
The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate potential changes in brain morphology (cortical thickness and cortical/subcortical volume) accompanying a series of sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blo...
Aug 13, 2020
Many factors are known to affect assay sensitivity; however, limited attention has been devoted to understanding whether characteristics of patients' baseline pain impact assay sensitivity. In this st...
Aug 13, 2020
Fibromyalgia is a common and challenging chronic pain disorder with few, if any, highly effective and well tolerated treatments. Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a non-sedating antioxidant with evidence of ...
Aug 13, 2020
Fibromyalgia pain is a mysterious clinical pain syndrome, characterized by inflammation in the brain, whose molecular mechanisms are still unknown. Females are more commonly affected by fibromyalgia, ...
Aug 13, 2020
Hydrogen sulfide (HS) is now recognized as an endogenous signaling gasotransmitter in mammals. It is produced by mammalian cells and tissues by various enzymes - predominantly cystathionine β-synthas...
Aug 13, 2020
Palmitic acid-modified bovine serum albumin (PAB) was synthetized and found to own remarkable scavenger receptor-A (SR-A) targeting ability in vitro and in vivo, through which activated macrophages to...
Aug 10, 2020
The rate of infective endocarditis (IE) in people who inject drugs (PWID) has been rapidly increasing in recent years, explains Michael Silverman, MD. Dr. Silverman and colleagues hypothesized that th...
Aug 10, 2020
A dosimetry evaluation model for treatment planning of esophageal radiation therapy is developed using a deep learning model. The model predicts dose volume histogram (DVH) from distance to target vol...
Aug 10, 2020
The present cross-sectional study aimed to investigate possible association between Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Apical Periodontitis (AP).In table one it is mentioned 48 patients diagnosed with RA w...
Aug 10, 2020
Tofacitinib is an oral, small molecule Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). Here, we performed an integrated analysis of malignancy events from the tofacitinib phase 3 ...
Aug 10, 2020
Ten kilohertz spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is usually initiated in a single-bipolar configuration over the radiological reference point T9/T10 intervertebral disc space for neuropathic back and leg...
Aug 10, 2020
Opioid-free anesthesia (OFA) is being implemented in breast surgery due to increased awareness of adverse effects and the national opioid crisis. The objective of this study was to examine the effect ...
Aug 10, 2020
There is an increasing number of children with in utero exposure to opioids. Knowledge about opioid safety in pregnancy, particularly for outcomes later in childhood is scarce. It has been suggested t...
Aug 10, 2020
Opioid prescribing by dentists for older patients receiving medications with potential contraindications and the subsequent impact on acute care outcomes is not well described.Our objective was to eva...
Aug 10, 2020
Auriculotemporal nerve is demonstrated to contribute to migraine pain in temporal area. In particular, its relationship with the superficial temporal artery in the soft tissues superficial to the temp...
Aug 10, 2020
The parent study was a survey in 28 headache centers (6 countries) which identified five potential root causes for long waiting lists that limit patient access to specialist care. Here we performed an...
Aug 10, 2020
Migraine is underdiagnosed and undertreated. Optometrists are primary eye care providers, who regularly encounter people with migraine as an incidental finding during routine eye examinations, or when...
Aug 10, 2020
The analgesic effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) combined with physical therapy remain unclear.To systematically review available evidence comparing tDCS with any physical thera...