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We know the top three rules of real estate: location, location, and location. But could location play a role in the risk assessment and management of chronic joint pain from arthritis? A researcher at the University at Buffalo found that the risk of joint pain is more than three times higher in some...
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As warmer weather arrives, a researcher looks back at the cold and the pain it can bring to hips and knees, shoulders, hands, and the spine. What can be done in the summer to prevent pain next winter? A bone specialist at Michigan Medicine, Michael Kheir, MD, also an orthopeadic surgeon at the...
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Dr. Sean Li is an interventional pain physician from New Jersey and regional medical director at Premier Pain Centers, where minimally invasive treatment options are utilized to help patients who have poor quality of life because of chronic pain.
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An article in the Cureus journal reports on a young, healthy man whose shoulder pain led to limb weakness and then bowel and bladder incontinence. Systemic examination unearthed nothing suspicious. An MRI showed spontaneous cervical epidural hematoma causing cord compression. The article states, “A...
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In 2019 in the United States, over 400,000 total joint arthroplasty (TJA) procedures were performed. A study published in the journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research questioned TJA prices, insurers, negotiations, and quality. Negotiated prices—from commercial in- or out-of-network...
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With the help of over $4.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, Oregon Health & Science University researchers hope to develop a treatment for pain resulting from the Chikungunya virus. The virus can cause long term debilitating joint pain. The experimental antiviral treatment...
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Post outpatient surgery for joint replacement, what are the benefits and/or drawbacks of sending a patient home with dexamethasone pills for pain? Over 100 patients at an institution received either dexamethasone or placebo for 4 days after a total knee arthroplasty. Pain scores for postoperative...
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The journal of Arthritis & Rheumatology reports on a pain management procedure for knee osteoarthritis. In a randomized, placebo controlled 12 week trial, 59 patients received either injections of saline (placebo) or 3 injections of celestone chronodose and bupivacaine to the genicular nerves...
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Look around. Knee pain impacts the quality of life in almost 50% of people. That's half the people around you! In the United States, over 20 million people suffer, and have reduced ability to function. The authors of an article in the Journal of Pain Research “present an all-encompassing set of...