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In terms of biopsychosocial treatment, providers must know that it’s critically important to look at all the factors that are affecting a patient’s pain condition. Any time we pigeonhole ourselves in any one category--whether it’s the medical piece, the psychological piece, or the physical piece--we...
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Although human trials of a new compound developed by Eli Lily and Co. for the treatment of osteoarthritis failed to demonstrate efficacy, the drug may still have substantial utility in the pain management armamentarium. Findings from a study conducted by researchers from Indiana University suggest...
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Although opioids remain an important tool in aiding the management of pain in the United States, the balance between the potential benefits and harms must be considered. Some specific harms are manifested in the abuse of opioids for nonmedical purposes. The primary access to prescribable opioids for...
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the third largest Institute of the National Institutes of Health, has announced the awarding of a $4.6 million grant to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The grant will be used to study the molecular neurobiology of pain in patients...
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I think we have to go back to before a lot of these scores, before the fifth vital sign was pain management. How did we treat patients before we had all these medications, interventions, surgeries at our disposal that were meant to help pain. I think a lot of what we're applying to chronic pain...
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Naloxone received FDA approval for the treatment of opioid overdose in 1971. Only recently has its use at the community level become more commonplace. Dr. Zacharoff looks at naloxone's role in improving the safety and efficacy of opioid analgesics, and in arresting the surge in unintended opioid...
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Dr. Getson specializes in the treatment of patients with complex regional pain syndrome. In this segment, he discusses what we know (and don't) about the condition, outlines points and tools of diagnosis, and offers detail on the elements of successful multimodal treatment. Early recognition is the...
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We're stressed in so many ways and our body tries to compensate for that stress and keep us on an even keel. It compensates in an analogous way as if you were running; your heart beats faster, you prepare yourself for fight or flight, you try to keep your body together and you have many mechanisms...
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Until recently there has been scant evidence on which to base treatment for complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), leaving an empirical approach as the required alternative. Dr. Harden discusses what may be changing in that landscape, where the evidence gaps still exist, and where providers should...
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With advancing age, the risk for comorbid sleep disturbance and chronic pain has been shown to increase. Where opioids are prescribed for pain, impairments to sleep can worsen. But the use of benzodiazepines for better sleep is contraindicated in combination with opioids. What to do? Dr. Raffa...