Jun 08, 2020

Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is the leading cause of disability, with a significant societal cost. It disproportionately affects Non-Hispanic Blacks and individuals of lower socioeconomic status (SES)...

Jun 08, 2020

The purpose of this study is to determine the association between presence of chronic pain and school functioning among school aged children (6-17▒y) using the most recent United States national dat...

Jun 08, 2020

We aimed to investigate whether concomitant use of benzodiazepines and opioids is associated with an increased risk of death in a population-based case-crossover setting.We conducted a case-crossover ...

Jun 08, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, symmetric, systemic autoimmune disease. Because insufficient apoptosis of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) is an important characteristic of RA, promoting apo...

Jun 08, 2020

There is growing evidence that some parasitic infections can impact a variety of autoimmune diseases by disease-inducing or protecting capacities. Anti-inflammatory molecules secreted by Toxoplasma go...

Jun 04, 2020

Ceftriaxone is a beta-lactam antibiotic that increases the expression of the major glutamate transporter, GLT-1. As such, ceftriaxone ameliorates symptoms across multiple rodent models of neurological...

Jun 04, 2020

Chronic illness is often comorbid with the psychological state of loneliness. Models of care for patients who experience chronic migraines may often lack an understanding of psychosocial influences o...

Jun 04, 2020

Persistent post-traumatic headache (PPTH) is often the most common injury post mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), reported by 47%-95% of patients. Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) has level A evid...

Jun 04, 2020

Dopaminergic symptoms may be extremely pronounced in some migraine patients during the attack, representing a major source of disability.We aimed to carefully characterize the clinical picture of migr...

Jun 04, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome characterized by altered pain processing at central and peripheral level, whose pathophysiologic mechanisms remain obscure. We aimed at exploring the structural changes...

Jun 04, 2020

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a common chronic pain condition that seriously affects the quality of patient lives. Its etiology, pathogenesis, and treatment still remain uncertain. Dietary supplements have bee...

Jun 04, 2020

Chronic widespread pain (CWP) is a complex pain condition characterized by generalized musculoskeletal pain and often associated with other symptoms. An important clinical feature is widespread increa...

Jun 04, 2020

Addiction Consult Services care for hospitalized patients with substance use disorders (SUD), who frequently utilize costly medical services. This study evaluates whether an addiction consult is assoc...

Jun 04, 2020

 The aim of this study is to assess the effect of a resident-led enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol for scheduled prelabor cesarean deliveries on hospital length of stay and postpartum ...

Jun 04, 2020

Radiographic joint erosions are a hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive than radiographs in detecting erosions. It is unknown whether MRI-detected e...

Jun 04, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by synovial joint inflammation, cartilage damage and dysregulation of the adaptive immune system. While neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have been propo...

Jun 04, 2020

Classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (cEDS) is a connective tissue disorder caused by heterozygous mutations in one of the type V collagen-encoding genes, COL5A1 or COL5A2. cEDS is characterized by genera...

Jun 04, 2020

This 16-week randomised controlled trial (8-week treatment followed by 8-week follow-up) evaluated the symptomatic improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) on 3 sessions per week of acup...

Jun 04, 2020

Chronic pain is a significant health problem worldwide with limited pharmacological treatment options. This study evaluated the relative efficacy of four treatment sessions each of four non-pharmacolo...

Jun 04, 2020

miR-155 plays a critical role in the inflammatory process and in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). miR155 gene expression is regulated by its gene promoter region CpG island methylation. Pre...