Pain
Opinion
Endometriosis and infertility – Combining a chronic physical and emotional pain
The delay in promptly identifying endometriosis is further impaired by the lack of specific biomarkers, awareness, and inadequate evaluation.
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How retraining your brain could help with lower back pain
New research debuts a novel effective treatment for chronic pain.
News
Safest, most effective medications for spine-related pain in older adults?
Acetaminophen has a favorable safety profile for spine-related pain but nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have greater efficacy.
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Antidepressants may curb opioid overdose
“If you are treating someone with pain, particularly chronic pain, it’s critically important to better assess their depression and not to...
News
Sleep-deprived physicians less empathetic to patient pain?
“Pain management is a major challenge, and a doctor’s perception of a patient’s subjective pain is susceptible to bias.”
Highlights
What is palliative care and what’s new in practicing this type of medicine?
The common misperception is that palliative care is only for those at end of life or only in the advanced stages of their illness.
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CBT may improve comorbid posttraumatic headache, PTSD
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for headache uses CBT concepts to reduce headache disability and improve mood.
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Persistent abdominal pain: Not always IBS
The challenge of diagnosing and treating persistent abdominal pain can be tackled by greater awareness of the multiple potential causes of this...
News
How we treat acute pain could be wrong
“What we’ve been doing for decades not only appears to be wrong, but appears to be 180 degrees wrong.”
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‘Genetic’ height linked to peripheral neuropathy and certain skin and bone infections
Even aside from the links between a person’s actual measured height and different health conditions, their genetically predicted height is...
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Hope for quicker and more accurate endometriosis diagnosis
Researchers will investigate whether a 20-minute imaging scan with an experimental imaging marker can detect the most common types of...