Pain
Feature
DIY Brain Stimulation Is Growing in Popularity, but Is It Safe, Effective?
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Physician Empathy Mitigates Patients’ Chronic Pain
The extent of the physician’s empathy effects exceeded that reported for nonpharmacological treatments, current opioid use, and lumbar spine...
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Caffeine Brings Benefits and Risks
Caffeine is the most consumed psychoactive agent and can impact blood pressure and cholesterol, studies suggest.
From the Journals
Erenumab Reduces Nonopioid Medication Overuse Headache in Chronic Migraine
A prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed that patients with chronic migraine and nonopioid medication overuse...
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Muscle Relaxants for Chronic Pain: Where Is the Greatest Evidence?
They do not appear to be beneficial for low back pain, fibromyalgia, or headaches.
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From the Journals
Triptans Trump Newer, More Expensive Meds for Acute Migraine
Results of a large systematic review and meta-analysis showed that eletriptan, rizatriptan, sumatriptan, and zolmitriptan were more effective than...
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Does Tailored Acupuncture Relieve Chronic Neck Pain?
“Our results suggest that the selection of pressure pain, sensory-based objective acupoints could be considered as a treatment of CNP [chronic...
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NSAIDs Offer No Relief for Pain From IUD Placement
“We’re challenging the current practice of using just NSAIDs as a first-line of treatment.”
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Do Cannabis Users Need More Anesthesia During Surgery?
Although the 0.04 difference in minimum alveolar concentration of anesthetics between cannabis users and nonusers was statistically significant,...
Opinion
The Prohibitive Price Tag
The guidelines, in essence, are useful, but only apply to a perfect world where drug cost doesn’t matter.
Commentary
Gabapentin: The Hope, the Harm, the Myth, the Reality
The drug has a surprising number of off-label uses, some with no evidence of efficacy.