The Internet may be an effective tool for treating chronic knee pain
1. Significantly greater pain improvement was observed in patients in the intervention group compared to the control. 2. Patients in ...
Tag: chronic pain
Stepped-care management useful for chronic pain treatment in veterans (ESCAPE Trial)
1. Stepped-care intervention (analgesia with self-management strategies followed by cognitive behavioral therapy) was associated with decreased pain-related disability, interference, and ...
Long term opioid pain therapy evidence limited, linked to serious harms
1. According to this systematic review, long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain was associated with increased risk of serious harms, ...
Acupuncture ineffective for chronic knee pain
1. Needle and laser acupuncture showed no improvements in average knee pain compared to sham acupuncture at 12 weeks. 2. ...
Dry eye disease linked to immune diseases and chronic pain
1. In a sample of British women, one in ten reported having a diagnosis of dry eye disease, while one ...
Pediatric chronic pain patients typically Caucasian, female adolescents.
Image: PD 1. The average child admitted for chronic pain was 13.5 years old, white, and female, and presented with ...
Functional MRI map for physical pain identified
Image: PD 1. Functional MRI (fMRI) can reliably discern thermal pain based on a reproducible neurologic signature. 2. The signature ...