8+ hour, 41+ min ago  (313+ words) Opioid analgesics reduce pain in acute conditions but showed variable efficacy across clinical settings and timepoints and evidence of increased adverse events. The study findings of systematic reviews and meta-analyses were published in Drugs journal. Although opioids are important for…...

22+ hour, 20+ min ago  (713+ words) Patients undergoing THA are increasingly noted to have psychiatric comorbidities; however, the effect of these conditions on clinically meaningful postoperative recovery has not been well-defined. These findings highlight the need for psychiatric screening and optimization during the preoperative period to…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (294+ words) Pain conditions may have bidirectional causal relationships with psychiatric disorders, suggesting that certain pain phenotypes may increase risk for mental disorders and that psychiatric conditions may predispose individuals to pain. These study findings were published in Journal of Pain Research....

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (300+ words) Patients with fibromyalgia appear to benefit from combined physical therapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. Health Day News " Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) plus outpatient physical therapy (PT) reduces movement-based pain in patients with fibromyalgia, according to a study published…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (311+ words) Patient-reported opioid consumption after orthopedic fracture surgery is found to be accurate and have good to excellent agreement with blister-pack pill counts, according to results of a study published in Pain Reports. Researchers aimed to determine the accuracy and reliability…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (269+ words) Novel fast-absorbing meloxicam formulation MR-107 A-02 demonstrates consistent analgesic efficacy, favorable safety, and opioid-sparing benefits across surgical models and pain severity subgroups, according to study results presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) Pain Connect annual meeting, held from…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (318+ words) Clinical Pain Advisor Health Day News " Kinesio taping (KT) for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) may reduce pain intensity in the immediate and short term, but the evidence is uncertain, according to a study published online March 31 in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. Qingcong…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (374+ words) Compared with education, telehealth cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs are found to improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and pain in people with endometriosis, according to results of a study published in Human Reproduction Open. Researchers evaluated telehealth CBT and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (222+ words) Managing endometriosis in patients with migraine requires individualization based on migraine subtype, vascular risk profile, and fertility goals. Hormonal management of endometriosis in patients with comorbid migraine requires individualized selection and dosing to balance endometriosis-related pain control, headache stability, and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (270+ words) Task-specific measures of pain-related fear demonstrate significantly stronger associations with spinal motor behavior (SMB) than general fear measures, according to results of a study published in Pain. Researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the relative strength of…...