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How people with persistent pain experience in-person physiotherapy blended with biopsychosocial digital health - A qualitative study on participants' experiences with Back2Action.

Mar 11, 2024

A blended intervention consisting of in-person physiotherapy and psychologically-informed digital health, called Back2Action, was developed to optimise the management of people with persistent spinal ...

Optimizing Recovery After Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Release Surgery: The Role of Counseling in Pain Management and Perioperative Functional Enhancement.

Mar 11, 2024

Preoperative patient education is pivotal in improving patient outcomes during the perioperative phase, involving a thorough explanation of what patients can expect. This enhances adherence and reduce...

Depressive inclinations mediate the association between personality (neuroticism/conscientiousness) and TikTok Use Disorder tendencies.

Feb 19, 2024

We introduce a novel measure for assessing TikTok overuse, called the TikTok Use Disorder-Questionnaire (TTUD-Q). As part of ongoing investigations into the suitability of the World Health Organizatio...

Targeting an inflammation-amplifying cell population can attenuate osteoarthritis-associated pain.

Feb 19, 2024

Understanding of pain in osteoarthritis, its genesis, and perception is still in its early stages. Identification of precise ligand-receptor pairs that transduce pain and the cells and tissues in whic...

The consumption of psychoactive substances among French physicians: how do they perceive the creation of a dedicated healthcare system?

Jan 01, 2024

Substance use among physicians can have negative impacts on their health, quality of life, and patient care. While Physician Health Programs (PHPs) have proven effective, many physicians with substanc...

Nomogram for predicting severe abdominal pain after initial conventional transarterial chemoembolisation for hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective study.

Dec 18, 2023

Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is a standard therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, adverse events, including abdominal pain, are common. This study aimed to investigate and veri...

Peri-prostatic nerve block using Clarius EC7 HD₃ handheld ultrasound guidance.

Dec 18, 2023

Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is a common modality used during urological procedures that require real-time visualization of the prostate, such as prostate biopsy and peri-prostatic nerve blocks (PNB)...

Support for nicotine reduction in cigarettes: findings from the 2016 and 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys.

Dec 11, 2023

The USA and New Zealand have sought to establish a product standard to set a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes to reduce their addictiveness. This study examined support for very low nicotine ciga...

Cocaine use disorder effects on blood oxytocin levels and OXTR DNA methylation.

Oct 02, 2023

Substance use disorders have been associated with alterations in the oxytocinergic system, but few studies have investigated both the peptide and epigenetic mechanisms potentially implicated in the re...

Relevance of early management by proton-pump inhibitor in acute upper gastro-intestinal tract disorder: A scoping review.

Sep 25, 2023

Proton-pump inhibitors (PPI) are frequently used in the emergency and general practice settings in several clinical presentations linked to acute upper gastro-intestinal tract disorders as abdominal o...

Impact of a pre-test measurement of alcohol craving in cue-exposure studies: relationship with social desirability and demand effects.

Sep 04, 2023

Craving is one of the most studied concepts in the field of addiction. It is often investigated with repeated measure experimental designs using self-reported scales. However, the explicit nature of s...

An in-depth association analysis of genetic variants within nicotine-related loci: Meeting in middle of GWAS and genetic fine-mapping.

Aug 28, 2023

In the last two decades of Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), nicotine-dependence-related genetic loci (e.g., nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - nAChR subunit genes) are among the most replicable...

Methods used to quit vaping among adolescents and associations with perceived risk, addiction, and socio-economic status.

Aug 21, 2023

Despite widespread evidence suggesting that e-cigarettes are harmful to youth, the prevalence of adolescent vaping continues to rise. The first aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine which...

The effect of technology addiction training given to nursing students on the perspectives and addiction levels of students.

Aug 07, 2023

The study was conducted to investigate the effect of technology addiction training given to nursing students on their Internet and technology addiction perspectives and addiction levels.The data of th...

Sex and gender differences in healthcare utilisation trajectories: a cohort study among Quebec workers living with chronic pain.

Jul 31, 2023

Chronic pain (CP) is a poorly recognised and frequently inadequately treated condition affecting one in five adults. Reflecting on sociodemographic disparities as barriers to CP care in Canada was rec...

#VisualAbstract: Lower rates of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in Black and Hispanic patients

Jun 14, 2023

Bookmark1. In this retrospective study of Medicare claims data from 2016 to 2019, receipt of opioid use disorder (OUD) medications (buprenorphine and naloxone) was lower among Black and Hispanic patie...

Promoting research engagement among women with addiction: Impact of recovery peer support in a pilot randomized mixed-methods study.

May 22, 2023

The impact of involving peers on research engagement is largely unknown. The purpose of this pilot study, a part of a larger research, was to evaluate the impact of recovery peer involvement as a stud...

Rhynchophylline inhibits methamphetamine dependence via modulating the miR-181a-5p/GABRA1 axis.

May 15, 2023

Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq. ex Havil. is a plant species that is routinely devoted in traditional Chinese medicine to treat central nervous system disorders. Rhynchophylline (Rhy), a predominant...

Effect of Pain Education Interventions on Registered Nurses' Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Apr 10, 2023

This review and meta-analysis aims to reveal how pain education interventions affect registered nurses' pain management.A systematic review and meta-analysis DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL (EBSC...

Pure Laparoscopic Donor Left Hepatectomy Reduces Postoperative Analgesic Use and Pain Scale.

Apr 10, 2023

Many recent reports have described the efficacy and safety of pure laparoscopic donor hepatectomy (PLDH). Here we investigated the extent to which this technique could reduce patients' experienced pai...

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