Pain General
Jun 22, 2020
Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a congenital neurovascular disorder characterised by capillary-venous malformations involving the skin, brain and eye. Patients experience headache, however little is kn...
Jun 22, 2020
Tremendous progress has been made in the past decades for the treatment of headache disorders. Chronic migraine is the most disabling type of headache and requires the use of acute and preventive medi...
Jun 22, 2020
Migraine is a complex and disabling neurological disorder, and the exact neurological mechanisms remain unclear. Thalamus is considered the hub of the central processing and integration of nociceptive...
Jun 22, 2020
The aim was to quantify and to compare the associations between longitudinal changes in pain and depression in different chronic pain conditions.Data were retrieved from 6 observational cohort studies...
Jun 22, 2020
Epigenetics of neurotrophic factors holds the potential to unravel the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of complex conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This study explored the ...
Jun 22, 2020
Renal fibrosis is a common pathological feature of progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD). It is indicated that transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) plays as a central mediator in renal fibrosis...
Jun 22, 2020
Acute postoperative pain following surgery is known to be associated with chronic pain development and lower quality of life. We sought to analyze the relationship between differing breast cancer exci...
Jun 22, 2020
A challenge in understanding chronic musculoskeletal pain is that research is often siloed between neuroscience, physical therapy/rehabilitation, orthopedics and rheumatology which focus respectively ...
Jun 22, 2020
Acute and chronic pain delay recovery and impair outcomes after major pediatric surgery. Understanding unique risk factors for acute and chronic pain is critical to developing effective treatments for...
Jun 22, 2020
In exposure for chronic pain, avoidance is often forbidden (extinction with response prevention; RPE) to prevent misattributions of safety. Although exposure is an effective treatment, relapse is comm...
Jun 22, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between comorbidities and chronic diseases and neuropathic and nonneuropathic orofacial pain diagnoses to suggest subclassifications of disease...
Jun 22, 2020
The incidence of aortic valve disease in inherited connective tissue disorders is well documented; however, recent studies have only begun to unravel the pathology behind this association. In this rev...
Jun 22, 2020
New informatics tools can transform evidence-based information to individualized predictive reports to serve shared decisions in clinic. We developed a web-based system to collect patient-reported out...
Jun 22, 2020
Progression of inflammation in acute appendicitis can lead to appendiceal perforation, which is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. Bacteremia due to a perforated appendicitis can lead to ...
Jun 22, 2020
The efficacy of screening and brief intervention for lower-risk drug use is unknown. This pilot study tested the efficacy of two brief interventions (BIs) for drug use compared to no BI in primary car...
Jun 18, 2020
To study the prevalence of perceived high stress among methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) patients, and whether stress can predict outcome, and whether stress may improve during treatment, we studi...
Jun 18, 2020
Research identifying pathways to heroin use has typically been conducted among urban populations. This study examined heroin initiation following pharmaceutical opioid use in three suburban/exurban So...
Jun 18, 2020
Randomized studies have reported a positive effect of candesartan, an angiotensin II receptor antagonist, in migraine prevention. The aim of our study was to explore patient subjective efficacy of can...
Jun 18, 2020
Prior studies have estimated the burden of migraine in patients suffering from ≥ 4 monthly headache days (MHDs), but the burden experienced by migraineurs suffering from one to three (1-3) MHDs i...
Jun 18, 2020
The study aimed to investigate the effect of dry needling (DN) into trigger points of the sternocleidomastoid muscle in migraine headache patients.Forty subjects with a migraine headache, originating ...