Pain
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Building a Toolkit for the Treatment of Acute Migraine
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Is migraine really a female disorder?
"Despite many years of research, there isn't one clear factor explaining this substantial difference between women and men."
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Low-dose naltrexone falls short for fibromyalgia
Authors recommend against initiating low-dose naltrexone for naltrexone-naive patients with fibromyalgia.
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Which migraine medications are most effective?
“Our findings that triptans, ergots, and antiemetics are the most effective classes of medications align with the guideline recommendations and...
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Medication overuse headache a pain to treat
“You can predict [a patient’s response] to some extent from the type of medication they overuse and the type of underlying primary headache.”
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Procedures may ease postmenopausal pain better than drugs
Although postmenopausal women initially reported higher mean pain scores upon presentation, they reported more improvement following...
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Chronic pain in the United States: New data
“This study identifies opportunities to improve guideline-concordant use of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies among adults with chronic...
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Avoid adding to minority stress when treating headache in LGBTQIA+ patients
To address headache in LBGTQIA+ patients, inclusive behavior can set the stage of collaboration toward control.
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Why aren’t doctors managing pain during gynecologic procedures?
By not teaching her how to administer pain treatment options such as lidocaine gel or injection, “they made the decision for me, whether I could...
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Can thermal biofeedback reduce pain and anxiety?
Device reduced anxiety scores by 22% in small study.
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Childhood trauma linked to adult headache
“Clinicians who treat primary headaches in adults “should routinely screen for ACEs, educate patients on the connection between ACEs and health,...