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This year, the pain management community has witnessed remarkable advancements, new opportunities, and the promise of more effective options for treating patients. From breakthrough medications to innovative technologies, there is a lot for pain management healthcare professionals to celebrate. Let...
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A literature review of disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADs) and their potential to repair/regenerate tissues was published in the Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery. Most OA treatments are aimed at pain reduction and researchers noted:
- Surgical treatments include: joint distraction...
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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...
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Cancer and degenerative diseases can cause bone loss. Via sound waves and tissue engineering, stem cells can be turned into bone cells, but the process is difficult and painful, involving bone marrow extraction. Researchers now report that use of higher frequency sound waves overcomes some of these...
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For people with an injured spinal cord, numbness, pain, and paralysis may occur due to brain/body damaged communication lines. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have given mice fenofibrate, a cholesterol lowering medication. The drug helps heal the central...
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive disease and the earlier it’s diagnosed the better. In an effort to better manage OA, top experts are targeting improved diagnostic abilities, the monitoring of disease progression, and examining all options for treatment. Rheumatologists are looking at the...
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Newswise — Sticks and stones may break one’s bones, but healing them requires the production of a protein signal that stimulates the generation, growth and spread of vital nerve cells, or neurons, throughout the injured area. That’s the finding of a recent Johns Hopkins Medicine study that used mice...
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Humans have been searching for the Fountain of Youth for millennia, from Ponce de León to Herodotus. Some people feel that regenerative medicine, a field that encompasses stem cells, growth factors, and other cell mediating proteins, is that magical fountain, while others, including some physicians...
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Newswise — Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania have developed a unique technique that uses stem cells and flexible implantable bone-stabilizing plates to help speed the healing of large breaks or defects.
The technique allows the stem cells...