In a systematic literature review, researchers sought to identify, summarize, and compare data on nonpharmacologic interventions for pain management among patients with dementia and assess their effectiveness.
In a systematic review and meta-analysis, study authors evaluated available evidence to determine the effect of mirror therapy on short- and long-term phantom limb pain in individuals with amputations.
The researchers’ goal was to determine the efficacy and safety of presurgical epidural analgesia for hip fracture patients undergoing surgical repair.
This systematic review and meta-analysis analyzes whether interventions for patients with shoulder pain can modify quantitative sensory testing parameters.
The Spine Intervention Society sets out to separate myths from facts about the effect of corticosteroid injections on the efficacy of vaccines for COVID-19.
Prior to surgery, patients had a percutaneous lead inserted in the brachial plexus, femoral, or sciatic nerve using ultrasound guidance.
This study assessed the postoperative pain profile of peripheral nerve block anesthesia, which is increasingly popular for acute ankle fracture surgery, as compared to spinal anesthesia.
Increasingly, patients receive liver transplants for other indications than end-stage liver disease and do not have coagulopathy, allowing insertion of an epidural catheter.
Investigators sought to determine the effects of 6-day continuous peripheral nerve block on phantom limb pain as well as physical and emotional dysfunction.
Many patients with craniofacial pain syndromes such as trigeminal neuralgia, cluster headache, and migraine have an adequate response to pharmacologic therapies.
