Pain Management
Jul 27, 2015
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear to be at greater risk for opioid overdoses than others, according to a study. Patients who used four ...
Jul 27, 2015
Patients with symptoms of depression appear to have a higher risk of developing an episode of low back pain in the future, according to findings of a systematic review. The authors noted that risks fo...
Jul 27, 2015
Pain coping skills training using an internet-based program called PainCOACH appears to reduce pain levels among patients with osteoarthritis who use the intervention, according to a study. The 8-week...
Jul 27, 2015
Patients with sickle cell disease who have shorter sleep duration, fragmented sleep, or inefficient sleep appear to have more days of greater pain severity, according to study findings. The authors no...
Jul 24, 2015
A while back, I was on call on a Saturday night when we got a notification of an incoming trauma, an intoxicated 40-year-old man who had fallen off a barstool and had a scalp laceration. He had a brie...
Jul 13, 2015
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear to be at greater risk for opioid overdoses than others, according to a study. Patients who used four ...
Jul 13, 2015
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear to be at greater risk for opioid overdoses than others, according to a study. Patients who used four ...
Jul 13, 2015
Among patients with a small umbilical or epigastric hernia, mesh repair appears to halve the long-term risk of recurrence when compared with sutured repair. Researchers found recurrence rates of 10% a...
Jun 22, 2015
New research was presented at APS 2015, the American Pain Society’s annual scientific meeting, from May 13 to 16 in Palm Springs, CA. The features below highlight some of the studies that emerged fr...
May 25, 2015
Migraine is one of the most common disorders for which patients seek medical treatment in the ED. Studies show that migraine causes most of the 5 million headache visits to EDs in the United States ea...
May 25, 2015
Management of pain is a critical aspect of postoperative care in pediatric urology. Currently, clinicians who aim to control postoperative pain in children use a combination of both opioids and anti-i...
Apr 27, 2015
Methadone is used for the treatment of opioid addiction and for chronic pain, but safety of the drug has recently been called into question. “Methadone is increasingly being prescribed for pain even...