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Emerging research shows that chronic pain produces a substantial biological burden, including cellular aging and systemic biological wear and tear. But the body also possesses resilience factors, and bolstering these may prevent or reverse the burden of pain. Drs. Bartley and Sibille explore in this...
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Emerging research shows that chronic pain produces a substantial biological burden, including cellular aging and systemic biological wear and tear. But the body also possesses resilience factors, and bolstering these may prevent or reverse the burden of pain. Drs. Bartley and Sibille explore in this...
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This week is National Burn Awareness Week and, in observation, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a press release summarizing the recent advances in treatment that can help burn victims regain a better quality of life following injury. The ASPS cites statistics showing that over...
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I think the resources are not there for us to continue to use the interdisciplinary teams as much as we want to. It's difficult for us sometimes to try to get the interdisciplinary pain program authorized, for example, in an industrial medicine setting. There's been many studies that support the use...
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The risk for opioid dependency among opioid-naïve cancer patients who took the medication following lung surgery, is highlighted in new research presented earlier this week at the annual meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Lead author Alexander Brescia, MD, commented, “Surgeons are at the...
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Findings from a recently completed study have returned encouraging results for a new noninvasive technology for the treatment of pain from trigeminal neuralgia (TN), often described by sufferers as the worst imaginable. The study concluded that stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) delivered via...
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I think this is a fine kettle of fish we find ourselves in with this opioid controversy. It’s easy to decry the use of opioids if you don’t have Plan B. So I think we’re seeing this in practice all the time, aren’t we?
When we talk about the multimodal therapy, the important thing is I think we...
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New research from a team of Canadian and US investigators reports that sleep quality can influence the relationship between pain and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children. Previous studies have found that children and adolescents with chronic pain also have higher incidence of PTSD, but...
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Cannabis as a pharmacological agent has been used for centuries. It's been described in China, in Asian countries dating back to well before the BC era. Ultimately it made its way to the United States where it actually was made available to patients until it was outlawed in the 1930s and '40s. And...
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When we run into resistance with biofeedback, usually we first start by explaining exactly what it is. Biofeedback is a term that gets used a lot that either people don't know about or there's a lot of misperceptions or ways it can be represented. The biggest thing I start with is just making sure...