Nov 08, 2021

A number of studies have demonstrated substantial individual differences in placebo effects. We aimed to identify individual psychological factors that potentially predicted the magnitude of placebo h...

Nov 01, 2021

Alpha oscillatory activity (8-13 Hz) is the dominant rhythm in the awake brain and is known to play an important role in pain states. Previous studies have identified alpha band slowing and increased ...

Nov 01, 2021

IMT504, a noncoding, non-CpG oligodeoxynucleotide, modulates pain-like behavior in rats undergoing peripheral nerve injury, through mechanisms that remain poorly characterized. Here, we chose the spar...

Oct 25, 2021

Oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) is known to be reduced in disadvantaged populations, including people who inject drugs. Mental health issues, such as depression are also commonly reported...

Oct 25, 2021

Although tramadol is increasingly used to manage chronic noncancer pain, few safety studies have compared it with other opioids.To assess the associations of tramadol, compared with codeine, with mort...

Oct 25, 2021

There is a need to better understand biological factors that increase the risk of persistent musculoskeletal pain and heightened pain sensitivity. Knowing the heritability (how genes account for diffe...

Oct 18, 2021

To analyze neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) bone metastasis (BM) and Gallium-68 (68Ga)-DOTA-TATE performance and to explore their correlation with the immunohistochemical proliferation index (Ki-67).A to...

Oct 18, 2021

Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) often report impaired health-related quality of life (HrQoL) such as difficulties in daily life, pain, fatigue and an affected social life. Even when lowering d...

Oct 18, 2021

Postmenopausal vaginal symptoms are common and frequently detrimental to a woman's quality of life. Fractional carbon dioxide vaginal laser is increasingly offered as a treatment, but the efficacy rem...

Oct 11, 2021

There is interest in the potential of internet-delivered programs to cost-effectively increase access to pain management for people with chronic pain. However, few large-scale clinical and economic ev...

Oct 04, 2021

The interspace between popliteal artery and the capsule of posterior knee (iPACK) block was proposed in recent years to relieve posterior knee pain. Since adductor canal block (ACB) and iPACK involve ...

Sep 27, 2021

Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluated the effects of an electro-magnetic active seat suspension that reduces exposure of a long-haul truck driver to whole body vibration (WBV) on low bac...

Sep 27, 2021

Inflammation is increasingly recognised to play a major role in gene-environment interactions in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The effects of aberrant immune responses to environmental stimuli ...

Sep 27, 2021

Chronic pain and sleep problems frequently co-occur. Pain itself disturbs sleep, but other factors may also contribute to sleep problems in pain patients. This cross-sectional study of 473 patients (6...

Sep 20, 2021

This systematic review synthesized the literature examining addiction substitution during recovery from substance use or behavioral addictions. A total of 96 studies were included with sample sizes ra...

Sep 20, 2021

Neuropathic pain has been shown to be modulated by the activation of the chemokine C-X-C motif ligand 12 (CXCL12)/chemokine CXC receptor 4 (CXCR4) dependent nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (...

Sep 20, 2021

Chronic pain is the most commonly reported physical symptomology of cerebral palsy (CP) and spina bifida (SB) throughout the lifespan, and yet, pain is perhaps the least understood comorbidity in thes...

Sep 15, 2021

Although opioid prescribing and opioid overdose are very important topics in pain management medicine, there are not enough pain management specialists to handle all the patients in need. For a paper ...

Sep 13, 2021

A growing body of research has examined adjunctive interventions supportive of engagement and retention in treatment among patients receiving buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD). We conducted ...

Sep 13, 2021

Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is a relatively frequently occurring secondary headache caused by overuse of analgesics and/or acute migraine medications. It is believed that MOH is associated with ...