Pain General
Mar 17, 2014
The Particulars: Elevated BMI has been linked to symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) in previous studies. Data are lacking on the impact of weight loss following gastric bypass surgery (GBS) on knee ...
Mar 17, 2014
The Particulars: Recent studies have shown that prescription drug abuse is on the rise throughout the United States. With this phenomenon has come a rise in “doctor shopping,” the practice of visi...
Feb 21, 2014
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is one of the most common complications associated with diabetes. Recent estimates show that DPN affects approximately 50% of people with diabetes in the United ...
Jan 13, 2014
About 50% to 70% of fibromyalgia patients have a lifetime history of depression, many of whom take antidepressants to treat their depression. A common clinical question has been how to manage fibromya...
Dec 23, 2013
Among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), abdominal pain is a common and frustrating symptom with multifaceted pathophysiology and can be associated with significant emotional suffering, d...
Dec 19, 2013
The well-meaning push to curb opioid prescribing could worsen healthcare for sickle cell patients. Clinicians tend to undertreat the substantial pain experienced by many sickle cell patients and treat...
Nov 26, 2013
The incidence of physician-diagnosed gout has risen over the past 20 years and now affects about 8.3 million adults in the United States. Uric acid excess has been identified as the key contributor to...
Oct 28, 2013
This has been bothering me for many years. No, pain is not the 5th vital sign. It's not a sign at all. Vital signs are the following: heart rate; blood pressure; respiratory rate; temperature. W...
Oct 17, 2013
The Particulars: Data indicate that pain is one of the leading complaints among ED patients. Patient satisfaction has been shown to improve when greater attention is given to pain assessment. The Auto...
Oct 17, 2013
The Particulars: The rate of opioid misuse among discharged ED patients who receive prescriptions for these drugs has not been well defined in previous studies. Little is known about how opioid misuse...
Oct 08, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC—New combinations of postoperative pain treatment decreased both pain and the use of narcotic pain relievers according to two studies presented this week at the 2013 Clinical Congress ...
Sep 05, 2013
Opioid drug use in patients with chronic pain has been linked to psychological distress and substance abuse. Studies suggest that these factors are often more influential than the intensity of pain pa...
Aug 13, 2013
About 25% of adults report having low back pain lasting at least 1 whole day in the preceding 3 months. Imaging for acute low back pain is common, with a reported 42% of patients receiving imaging wit...
Mar 19, 2013
Bicycle, trampoline and roller sport injuries decline; football and soccer injuries still on the rise New research presented today at the at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academ...
Mar 19, 2013
Military Personnel Return to Duty Following Severe Injury to the Lower Extremity Return to Duty of Special Operations Personnel after Limb Salvage for High Energy Lower Extremity Trauma Return to ...
Feb 19, 2013
Approximately 600,000 total knee arthroplasties (TKA) are performed each year in the United States, costing about $15,000 per procedure. “TKA has been shown to markedly improve health-related qualit...
Feb 11, 2013
In 2008, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) issued guidelines for the use of non-biologic and biologic treatments in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Much has changed in the years since the last rec...
Jan 28, 2013
Atraumatic headache is one of the most common complaints in EDs, but only a small subset of patients who present to the ED with this complaint are found to have life-threatening intracranial pathology...
Jan 27, 2013
Consensus statements on the management of knee osteoarthritis have not thoroughly addressed the use of opioid medications in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). In order to reduce posto...
Jan 25, 2013
About 38% of people who suffer from migraine could benefit from preventive treatments, but less than one-third currently uses them. Some analyses have shown that migraine attacks can be reduced by mor...