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Some observations on pain mechanisms, diagnostic testing and back pain that underlie an effective clinical approach to management and treatment.
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Veterans are coming back with a number of key problems that are impacting their pain and their lives. Many patients are coming back with not only chronic pain, but post-traumatic stress disorder. They are coming back with traumatic brain injuries that are related to either direct trauma or exposure...
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Observations on the effectiveness of music as an element of pain therapy.
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Dr. Blatman offers insights into the role of nutrition in pain management, including foods that may increase pain and inflammation, and foods that assist in their modulation.
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We know that migraine is a neurological vascular headache and, more importantly, it’s a disease of the brain. That’s basically what we understand now from what we understand about migraine, and it is associated in a number of migraine patients with central sensitization. That means that the pain...
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Some observations on pain mechanisms, diagnostic testing and back pain that underlie an effective clinical approach to management and treatment.
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Comments on the prevalence of CRPS and its relation to fibromyalgia from a practitioner and professor of neurology.
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Because patients in palliative care are often on so many medications, the clinical picture’s always changing. Their organ function changes, they have low protein stores sometimes that affects the way drugs interact, and many patients have different distributions of enzymes. A lot of the major drug...
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The common adverse effects of opioid therapy include nausea and vomiting, and, of course, constipation. Sedation, also, although this could be the result of pain-induced sleep deprivation, and now that you’re treating the pain, they’re catching up on their sleep. Generally, that gets better over the...
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Observations by a pain management educator and lawyer on some key issues for pain medication prescribers.