Pain
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...
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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...
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How much pain is in the mind? This doctor thinks the answer is, most
My feeling is that these psychosocial interventions are easy to try, relatively inexpensive, noninvasive, and, in my experience, often can lead to...
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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.
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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...
From the Journals
Oxycodone tied to persistent use only after vaginal delivery
Oxycodone receipt was not associated with persistent opioid use, compared with codeine.
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Functional MRI shows that empathetic remarks reduce pain
“These results prove that empathy and support can decrease pain intensity.”
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Medical cannabis does not reduce use of prescription meds
“This study did not identify important effects of medical cannabis laws on receipt of opioid or nonopioid pain treatment among patients with...
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New DEA CME mandate affects 2 million prescribers
One should not underestimate the sweeping scope of this new federal requirement.
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Are you a physician ... or a vending machine?
We stopped prescribing oxycodone and now people are on gabapentin in the highest doses, diversion is up, and so is its abuse.
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Regular exercise may boost pain tolerance
“There were indications that both total amount of physical activity over time, as well as the direction of change in activity level over time...