Pain
Conference Coverage
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.”
Literature Review
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...
Conference Coverage
Adolescents with migraine need smooth handoff to adult care
One goal of migraine management in adolescents and young adults should be to prevent adulthood chronicity.
Conference Coverage
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.
Literature Review
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,...
News from the FDA/CDC
FDA warns of hidden ingredients in arthritis, pain products
“I don’t know if this was intentional, but it seems suspicious that a product marketed to reduce joint pain and inflammation contains prescription...
From the Journals
Are migraine preventives underused in young adults?
While researchers suggest their findings could show underuse of preventive migraine medications in young adults, an expert notes the reality is...
From the Journals
CBT linked to reduced pain, less catastrophizing in fibromyalgia
Cognitive behavioral therapy improves pain interference, reduces catastrophizing, and alters pain-related brain circuitry in female patients with...
Feature
Poor sleep and chronic pain prove pesky bedfellows
Two methods used by torturers – pain infliction and sleep deprivation – harm people in ways that also are experienced by many patients with pain...
Commentary
A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Commentary
Will this trial help solve chronic back pain?
Physicians are trained that if there’s pain, there’s something wrong and we have to do surgery or there’s been some trauma. Most chronic pain is...