Pain General
Oct 22, 2020
Migraine is a multifactorial neurovascular disorder, which affects about 12% of the general population. In episodic migraine, the visual cortex revealed abnormal processing, most likely due to decreas...
Oct 22, 2020
We examined the reliability and validity of the 6-item Headache Impact Test (HIT-6) specifically on patients with chronic migraine (CM) from the PROMISE-2 clinical trial.The conceptual framework of HI...
Oct 22, 2020
A recent study (FIBROWALK has supported the effectiveness of a multicomponent treatment based on pain neuroscience education (PNE), exercise therapy (TE), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindf...
Oct 22, 2020
To identify depression subphenotypes from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) using machine learning methods, and analyze their characteristics with respect to patient demographics, comorbidities, and me...
Oct 22, 2020
Codeine is one of the most commonly used opioid analgesics. Significant codeine-related morbidity and mortality prompted regulatory responses, with the up-scheduling of codeine combination analgesics ...
Oct 22, 2020
Surgeons have hesitated to use steroids in patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion because of the risk of wound complications. The literature has supported the use of postoperative steroids in oth...
Oct 22, 2020
A nontraumatic spontaneous spinal acute subdural hematoma (sSDH) is a rare complication after spinal surgery. Although an sSDH is often associated with anticoagulation therapy, vascular malformations,...
Oct 22, 2020
Concerns about SARS-CoV-2 infection may have led to changes or discontinuation of immunosuppressive medications among patients with systemic rheumatic disease. Our goal was to assess patients' perspec...
Oct 22, 2020
As the most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis (OA) has become a major cause of severe joint pain, physical disability, and quality of life impairment in the affected population. To date, precis...
Oct 22, 2020
The detection and identification of pathogenic microorganisms are essential for the treatment of osteoarticular infection. However, obtaining a sufficient amount of specimen from pediatric patients is...
Oct 22, 2020
In complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), hyperalgesia encompasses uninjured sites on the ipsilateral side of the body and may also include the special senses, as auditory discomfort often is greater ...
Oct 22, 2020
Many people with chronic whiplash associated disorders (WAD) also have symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but this is rarely considered in usual predominantly exercise based interventio...
Oct 22, 2020
The voltage gated sodium channel Nav1.7 is highly expressed in nociceptive afferents and is critically involved in pain signal transmission. Nav1.7 is a genetically validated pain target in humans, as...
Oct 22, 2020
Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) protocols index magnitude of descending pain inhibition. This study evaluated whether degree of CPM, controlling for CPM expectancy confounds, was associated with ana...
Oct 22, 2020
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is currently a global pandemic that affects patients with other pathologies. Here, we investigated the influence of treatments for osteoporosis and other non-inflamma...
Oct 15, 2020
Opioid use disorders are chronic and relapse is common. Both negative affect and craving have been suggested antecedents of relapse and have been shown to demonstrate within- and between-person variab...
Oct 15, 2020
An epidemic of opioid overdose has spread across North America, with illicit drug-related overdose emerging as a leading cause of death in recent years. Estimates of opioid use disorder (OUD) prevalen...
Oct 15, 2020
This mixed-methods study compared drug use histories between individuals who had a reported non-fatal overdose to individuals who did not and described the overdose risk-management strategies as they ...
Oct 15, 2020
We describe the case of a 38-year-old woman whose headache phenotype transformed from episodic migraine to hemicrania continua (HC) responsive to indomethacin, as expected per diagnostic criteria. Our...
Oct 15, 2020
This study aimed to clarify the relationship between migraine-like headache and ventriculo-arterial coupling after transcatheter closure of the atrial septal defect in children. We hypothesized that m...