Pain General
Jun 15, 2020
“Among the limited treatment options for patients with migraine, many of those used as preventatives are not highly effective and can create challenging side effects,” says David A. Seminowicz, Ph...
Jun 15, 2020
Reliable estimation of the likelihood for prolonged postoperative opioid use may aid targeted interventions for high-risk patients. Previous studies have recommended differing methodologies for predic...
Jun 15, 2020
The aim of this study is to (1) review the digital health tools that have been used in headache studies, and (2) discuss the effectivity and reliability of these tools.Many headache patients travel a ...
Jun 15, 2020
Migraine is a comorbidity of painful temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). Both migraine and painful TMD have associations with neck pain and head posture. The aim of this study was to clarify the role...
Jun 15, 2020
This study evaluates the accuracy of an automated classification tool of single attacks of the two major primary headache disorders migraine and tension-type headache used in an electronic headache di...
Jun 15, 2020
Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain and by several non-pain symptoms. Autoimmunity, small fiber neuropathy and neuroinflammation have been suggested to be involved in t...
Jun 15, 2020
The different phenotypic presentations of fibromyalgia (FM) have been infrequently studied and may have diagnostic and therapeutic implications. The aim of this study was to explore differences betwee...
Jun 15, 2020
Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) channels are non-selective cationic polymodal receptors gated by several different chemical and physical stimuli. TRPV1 receptors are distributed in se...
Jun 15, 2020
Non-substance addictive behaviors may involve repetitive rewarding behaviors including gambling, gaming, sexual activities, internet-use, and buying-shopping. In addictions, there exists diminished co...
Jun 15, 2020
Persons who interact with criminal justice and hospital systems are particularly vulnerable to negative health outcomes, including overdose. However, the relationship between justice involvement, heal...
Jun 15, 2020
To investigate predictors of disease flare after methotrexate discontinuation in Japanese rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with sustained low disease activity undergoing tocilizumab plus methotrexat...
Jun 15, 2020
Anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty is the gold standard shoulder replacement procedure for patients with an intact rotator cuff and sufficient glenoid bone to accommodate prosthetic glenoid implant ...
Jun 15, 2020
The MultiDimensional Symptom Index (MSI) is a 10-item parallel score frequency x interference patient reported outcome for use in clinical pain research. This manuscript describes the results of evalu...
Jun 15, 2020
There has been growing interest in examining pain-related activity patterns and their relationships to psychosocial functioning. The Patterns of Activity Measure - Pain (POAM-P) is frequently used to ...
Jun 15, 2020
We recently developed a transdiagnostic exposure treatment ("the hybrid treatment") for chronic pain patients with concurrent emotional difficulties. This paper investigates the hypothesized treatment...
Jun 15, 2020
The primary aim of this study was to develop a diagnostic cluster of common clinical findings that would assist in ruling out an active spondylolysis in adolescent athletes with low back pain (LBP).Re...
Jun 15, 2020
Hyaline cartilage lining the surfaces of diarthrodial joints is an important construct for transmission of load and to reduce friction between the bones. Normal wear and tear accounts for about 3-5 pe...
Jun 13, 2020
Research suggests that patients with migraine have an increased sensitivity or intolerance to light, particularly flicker from sources like LED lighting and computer backlights “Often, this photopho...
Jun 11, 2020
Since both morphine and tadalafil have been proven to exert some of their analgesic activity through modulation of the NO-cGMP pathway, the aim of the current study is to evaluate the pharmacologic in...
Jun 11, 2020
Fentanyl test strips (FTS) can prevent overdose by identifying unknown fentanyl-laced drugs. We measured FTS use amongst people who inject drugs (PWID) in San Francisco.Data were from a cross-sectiona...