Aug 03, 2020

Recent years have seen a dramatic escalation of off-label prescribing for gabapentin and pregabalin (gabapentinoids) owing in part to generic versions of each being released over the past two decades,...

Aug 03, 2020

The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the bone health in preoperative spine surgery patients. This information will provide a framework to understand the needs and methods for providin...

Aug 03, 2020

Patients with osteopenia or osteoporosis who require surgery for symptomatic degenerative spondylolisthesis may have higher rates of postoperative pseudarthrosis and need for revision surgery than pat...

Aug 03, 2020

Resection of the distal interphalangeal joint (DIJ) is a claw-preserving method for treatment of septic arthritis. This study presents the radiographic and histological findings of the surgically-trea...

Jul 30, 2020

Presynaptic inhibition is modulated by supraspinal centers and primary afferents in order to filter sensory information, adjust spinal reflex excitability, and ensure smooth movements. After SCI, the ...

Jul 30, 2020

A significant proportion of patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) have peripheral enthesitis. Data suggest that psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients with enthesitis have a higher disease burden than tho...

Jul 30, 2020

Patients with haemophilia are prone to haemophilic arthropathy (HA). For end-stage HA, total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective procedure. However, limited data were available regarding complicat...

Jul 30, 2020

The opioid epidemic has become a major public health crisis in recent years. Discharge opioid prescription following cardiac surgery has been associated with opioid use disorder; however, ideal practi...

Jul 30, 2020

Opioid-induced ventilatory depression and hypoxemia is common, severe, and often unrecognized in postoperative patients. To the extent that nonopioid analgesics reduce opioid consumption, they may dec...

Jul 30, 2020

Fentanyl buccal soluble film (FBSF), a new formulation of fentanyl, is developed for the treatment of breakthrough pain (BTP) in opioid-tolerant patients with cancer.This study aimed to assess the fea...

Jul 30, 2020

Anti-calcitonin gene-related peptide antibodies proved effective in the preventive treatment of chronic migraine. In this open label study, we aim to assess the effects of erenumab administration on n...

Jul 30, 2020

Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) is a proven treatment for cluster headache and migraine. Several possible mechanisms of action by which nVNS mitigates headache have been identified.We cond...

Jul 30, 2020

Numerous invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation devices have been developed and applied to patients with headache and neuralgia in recent years. However, no updated review addresses their safety an...

Jul 30, 2020

To provide a brief and comprehensive summary of the recent evidence from clinical trials testing psychotherapeutic interventions in patients with fibromyalgia with particular interest in their possibl...

Jul 30, 2020

In terms of antinociceptive action, the main mode of action of magnesium involves its antagonist action at the -methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, which prevents central sensitization and attenuates ...

Jul 30, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex pain condition where the pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms are not fully elucidated. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the plasma proteome profi...

Jul 30, 2020

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has a direct impact on the gastrointestinal system, as up to 50% of fecal samples from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patien...

Jul 28, 2020

National guidelines note that nonpharmacologic and non-opioid-containing pharmacologic therapies are preferred for managing chronic pain whenever appropriate. “Since the early 2000s, there has been ...

Jul 27, 2020

Besides extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, semi-rigid ureteroscopy (URS) has become an equal therapy of choice for the treatment of most distal ureteric stones. Before the wide availability of lase...

Jul 27, 2020

Evaluate changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disability in children with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) or polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA) treated w...