Pain General
May 15, 2023
Retrospective cohort study.To compare the relative value units (RVUs) per minute of operative time between primary and revision surgery for adult spinal deformity (ASD).Surgery for ASD is technically ...
May 15, 2023
The timing of the switch from intravenous (IV) to oral antibiotic therapy for orthopaedic bone and joint infections (BJI) is debated. In this narrative article, we discuss the evidence for and against...
May 15, 2023
Inflammation plays pivotal role in the development of chronic diseases. Reducing chronic inflammation is an important strategy for preventing and managing many chronic diseases. In traditional Chinese...
May 15, 2023
Shoulder pain is a highly prevalent musculoskeletal condition that frequently leads to suboptimal clinical outcomes. This study tested the extent to which circulating inflammatory biomarkers are assoc...
May 08, 2023
Oxytocin is routinely administered after delivery for prophylaxis and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage, but it is associated with considerable cardiovascular side-effects. Carbetocin, a synthetic ox...
May 08, 2023
Overweight and/or obese patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) have higher disease activity and lower chances of achieving and/or maintaining the treatment targets. Weight/obesity also appears to n...
May 08, 2023
Chronic pain is a multidimensional experience and pain treatments targeting psychosocial factors reduce pain and improve function. These treatments often overlook the sociocultural factors that influe...
May 01, 2023
A syndemic is the co-existence of two or more health problems (including both social and biological features) that adversely influence each other with negative consequences on disease outcomes and per...
May 01, 2023
This study aimed to determine whether pathological changes in the bone marrow cause Osteoarthritis (OA) pain based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), immunohistochemistry, and electrophysiology.Adju...
May 01, 2023
Pain catastrophization (PC), involving rumination, magnification, and helplessness, can be viewed as a coping strategy associated with chronic pain. PC is considered a driving force in mediating pain-...
Apr 24, 2023
Multicentric carpotarsal osteolysis (MCTO) syndrome, is typically characterized by progressive bone resorption in especially carpal and tarsal bones, in addition to abnormal facial appearance and prot...
Apr 24, 2023
Pectoserratus plane block (PSPB) leads to lower postoperative pain intensity. We examined whether PSPB could also reduce the incidence of post-mastectomy pain syndrome (PMPS) in women undergoing breas...
Apr 17, 2023
A central problem in the cognitive sciences is identifying the link between consciousness and neural computation. The key features of consciousness-including the emergence of representative informatio...
Apr 10, 2023
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Contemporary treatment of CLBP is suboptimal, with small/moderate effect sizes and high relapse rates. Virtual reality (VR) is ...
Apr 10, 2023
The 20-item Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale (PASS-20) was adapted for Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans who report chronic pain (SSMACP). The instrument measures pain-related anxiety with fear, physiologi...
Apr 03, 2023
Seizure-like burst activities are induced by blockade of GABAA and/or glycine receptors in various spinal ventral roots of brainstem-spinal cord preparation from neonatal rodents. We found that this i...
Apr 03, 2023
To systematically evaluate the safety and efficacy of Local anesthesia (LA) and general anesthesia (GA) in percutaneous interlaminar endoscopic discectomy (PIED).We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Europ...
Apr 03, 2023
Low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability with a large impact on quality of life and resistant to a broad array of current treatments. This study aims to investigate the effect...
Mar 27, 2023
Intensive interdisciplinary pain treatments (IIPT) have been developed to treat youth with unmanaged chronic pain and functional disability. Dysregulation of metabolites gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA...
Mar 27, 2023
The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of economic (e.g. GDP per capita), political (e.g. healthcare spending), cultural (country-level aggregates norms) and individual correlates (e.g., de...