Operant Learning May Provide More Benefits Than Energy Conservation in Fibromyalgia
Operant learning may provide additional benefits compared with energy conservation in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.
Operant learning may provide additional benefits compared with energy conservation in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.
In patients with chronic pain conditions, daily pain assessments using a smartphone app indicated a positive correlation between perceived change in pain symptoms and levels of pain catastrophizing.
The clinical profiles of patients taking over-the-counter pain medications were found to be poorer than expected, with a high prevalence of migraine headache and many reporting frequent and disabling pain for extended durations.
Patients with unilateral complex regional pain syndrome may have a weaker illusory response to a novel finger illusion compared with healthy controls, indicating disrupted weighting of bilateral hand cortical representations.
Patients with tension-type or migraine headaches often exhibit myofascial trigger points, but the involvement of these trigger points in the pathophysiology of these conditions is not well understood.
Patients undergoing robotic hysterectomy were found to report comparable pain scores when receiving celecoxib perioperatively or ketorolac postoperatively.
Widespread pressure pain hypersensitivity at nerve trunks and musculoskeletal structures associated with long-standing unilateral plantar heel pain may result from altered central pain processing.
Intravenous hydromorphone may provide greater analgesic effect compared with intravenous acetaminophen in adult patients presenting to the emergency department with severe acute pain.
Sufentanil sublingual tablets may be effective for the short-term postoperative or emergency department management of moderate to severe pain in patients from across the body mass index spectrum.
Ketamine may be superior to clonidine as an adjunct to epidural steroid injection of triamcinolone for patients with chronic low back pain.