Pain
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Buprenorphine One of Many Options For Pain Relief In Oldest Adults
Buprenorphine is better at treating chronic pain than other opioids that carry a higher addiction risk and often cause constipation in elderly...
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Benefit of Massage Therapy for Pain Unclear
A recent systematic review found only moderate-certainty evidence that massage therapy may alleviate pain.
Commentary
Chronic Neck Pain: A Primary Care Approach
There are three types but the most common and least serious is mechanical neck pain.
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Combat Exposure Increases Chronic Pain Among Women in the US Military
“The potential for higher rates of chronic pain in women veterans has been theorized to result from differences in support structures, family...
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Vocacapsaicin Could Lessen Pain, Opioid Use Post Surgery
Versus placebo, vocacapsaicin reduced opioid consumption by 50% in first 4 days and pain by 37% in first week post surgery.
From the Journals
Neck Pain in Migraine Is Common, Linked to More Disability
More than two-thirds report the condition, which ‘is probably worth asking about.’
Conference Coverage
Are Primary Care Physicians the Answer to the US Headache Neurologist Shortage?
The American Headache Society developed the First Contact program with the aim of improving headache education in primary care and help alleviate...
From the Journals
A New Psychotherapeutic ‘Gold Standard’ for Chronic Pain?
The study is one of only a few to directly compare emotional awareness and expression therapy with cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Conference Coverage
Why Don’t Migraine Patients Seek Treatment?
Participants cited concerns that their complaints would be dismissed, a belief that healthcare providers could offer no additional help, and a...
Conference Coverage
One Patient Changed This Oncologist’s View of Hope. Here’s How.
“How we think about hope directly influences patient care,” according to a professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York...
Commentary
DEA Training Mandate: 8 Hours of My Life I’d Like Back
Dr. Walton-Shirley describes changes needed to renew DEA licenses so that others who prescribe very few narcotics do not have to spend so much...