Jun 29, 2020

Exercise is a core treatment for persistent non-specific low back pain (NSLBP), but results from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of exercise typically show only small to moderate standardised mean...

Jun 29, 2020

Pain neuroscience education (PNE) is an approach used in the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). Previous reviews on PNE and other pain interventions, have focussed on mean treatment eff...

Jun 29, 2020

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis experience chronic pain, depression and fatigue, even when inflammation of the joints is well controlled. To study the relationship between arthritis, depression, an...

Jun 29, 2020

Coccidioidal meningitis is a life-threatening condition and a diagnostic challenge in cases of chronic meningitis. It is associated to severe complications, like basal arachnoiditis, hydrocephalus, an...

Jun 25, 2020

(1) To determine patient factors associated with prolonged opioid use following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) and (2) to evaluate the influence of preoperative opioid use on patient...

Jun 25, 2020

In a recent individual patient data meta-analysis, acupuncture was found to be superior to sham and non-sham controls in patients with chronic pain. It has been suggested that a subgroup of patients h...

Jun 25, 2020

Migraine without aura is the most common type of migraine headache, accounting for about 80% of all migraines. The aim of the present investigation was to determine the neurochemical metabolite altera...

Jun 25, 2020

Pain is a major health problem among US adults. Surprisingly little, however, is known about educational disparities in pain, especially among the nonelderly. In this study, we analyze disparities in ...

Jun 25, 2020

Pain is a common feature of most rheumatic diseases and it is often the main reason for the patient to seek for a clinical appointment. Chronic pain has a major impact on patient's quality of life, be...

Jun 25, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is consistently associated with fatigue, sleep disturbances, morning stiffness, and anxiety and depression, affecting physical capacities and skills and thereby reducing quality of l...

Jun 25, 2020

This paper is the forty-first consecutive installment of the annual anthological review of research concerning the endogenous opioid system, summarizing articles published during 2018 that studied the...

Jun 25, 2020

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor activation is known to be critical in remifentanil-induced hyperalgesia. Evidence indicates that iron accumulation participates in NMDA neurotoxicity. This study a...

Jun 25, 2020

Phantom limb pain (PLP) may be relieved using a visual representation of an intact limb. However, patients with distorted (telescoped) phantoms seem unable to associate with visualizations of intact l...

Jun 25, 2020

This systematic review assessed design characteristics and reporting quality of published randomized clinical trials of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for treatment of pain in adults and adolescents. T...

Jun 25, 2020

This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the evidence for altered central pain processing in people with non-traumatic neck pain and the relationship between central pain processing, demograp...

Jun 25, 2020

The impact of periodontal disease on systemic conditions has not been fully identified yet. Literature shows that the incidence of psoriatic arthritis in psoriasis-patients is higher in presence of pe...

Jun 25, 2020

Septic arthritis is a condition of bone disorder caused predominantly by Staphylococcus aureus. Following the bacterial entry activated immune cells specially macrophages and dendritic cells release p...

Jun 25, 2020

To examine rates of adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy among a representative sample of older adult Medicare beneficiaries with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and to ident...

Jun 25, 2020

Atherosclerosis is the main pathology behind most cardiovascular diseases. It is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of lipid-rich plaques in arteries. Atherosclerotic plaque...

Jun 23, 2020

Increasing evidence suggests that vestibular migraine (VM) is a common cause of episodic vertigo, with an estimated 2.7% of US adults having been diagnosed with the condition. “Despite being common,...