Tag: Pain

Recommendations include criteria for ED triage, laboratory evaluation and monitoring parameters, management of acetylcysteine treatment

Study shows reduction in acute pain for high- but not low-dose VX-548

Kratom does not have U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, but is sold online and at convenience stores

Risk increased with labor epidural analgesia alone and labor epidural analgesia and oxytocin compared with no exposure

Patients also required fewer opioids when initiating patient-controlled epidural anesthesia in operating room

Vertebral fractures, underrecognized as pathological, were main cause of irreversible organ damage

Greater number of chronic pain sites linked to increased incident all-cause dementia, Alzheimer disease but not vascular and frontotemporal dementia

No impact on receipt of opioid or nonopioid pain treatment seen among patients with chronic noncancer pain

Beneficial effects seen for 12 weekly sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy and/or pharmacotherapy using stepped approach

Furthermore, pain tolerance increases with higher activity levels, as well as for those who increase their activity over time