Eve Bender June 02, 2023 A novel intervention that blends individualized care, mindfulness, and a tapering plan is more successful than usual care in helping patients discontinue opioids for chronic pain, new research shows. As part of the multisite Improving the Wellbeing of People with Opioid Treated Chronic Pain (I-WOTCH) study, 30% of participants in the intervention...
Category: <span>Pain/Inflammation</span>
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Mouse study suggests pain not perceived in the same way in people with Alzheimer’s disease
by King’s College London Attenuated inflammatory arthritis pain in TASTPM is caused by microglia that are insensitive to Gal-3. a Illustration of the superficial laminae of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, where nociceptor terminals synapse on laminae I projection neurons. b In homoeostasis, microglia constantly survey the parenchyma by responding to cues in their microenvironment. c During inflammatory arthritis, TLR4+ P2Y12+ microglia...
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Everyone’s brain has a pain fingerprint – new research has revealed for the first time
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX IMAGE: AN EXAMPLE OF A GAMMA OSCILLATION BRAIN PAIN FINGERPRINT CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX New research has revealed everyone’s brain has a ‘pain fingerprint’ that varies from person to person. The University of Essex-led study, in collaboration with the neuroscience of pain group at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, found fast-oscillating brain waves...
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Suffering From Chronic Pain? Here’s How Exercising Can Help
Manya Singh Updated: June 13, 2023 2:58 pm IST Stretching is a great way to reduce chronic pain, especially pain in the back and neck Exercising has been found to be a very effective way of reducing chronic pain. Chronic pain is the type of pain that persists for more than three months. Chronic pain...
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Brain signatures for chronic pain identified in a small group of individuals
by National Institutes of Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time, researchers have recorded pain-related data from inside the brain of individuals with chronic pain disorders caused by stroke or amputation (phantom limb pain). A long sought-after goal has been to understand how pain is represented by brain activity and how to modulate that activity to...
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FDA OKs Spinal Cord Stimulation Devices for Chronic Back Pain
Megan Brooks May 16, 2023 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for Abbott Laboratories’ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) devices to include treatment of chronic back pain in patients who have not had, or are not eligible for, back surgery, the company has announced. The new indication spans all of Abbott’s SCS devices in the US, which...
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Study offers fresh hope for people living with chronic back pain
by Curtin University Trial participant Volker Rehbocks and Curtin Professor Peter O’Sullivan. Credit: Curtin University Long-term sufferers of chronic back pain experienced dramatic reductions in pain and related disability that remained at their one-year follow-up after taking part in a new treatment tested by Curtin-Macquarie-Monash University research. Published today in the journal The Lancet, the research found large...
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Arthritis treatments: How to get pain relief from arthritis
by Kirstie Ganobsik Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There are more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions, and they affect at least 54 million adults and 300,000 children in the United States, according to the Arthritis Foundation. Fortunately, there are also many medications, non-medication options, lifestyle changes and surgeries available to help you manage arthritis pain and other...
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TELEHEALTH PROGRAM EASES PAIN AND REDUCES OPIOID USE
In the study in the journal Pain, researchers divided about 400 participants who had been prescribed long-term opioid treatment for their pain into two groups: one received treatment as usual and another received treatment and access to a self-guided, e-health program. “…NOT ONLY WERE THEY REDUCING OPIOIDS BUT ALSO THEIR PAIN WAS NOT BECOMING WORSE.” Of...
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Pulsed radiofrequency with steroid injection brings sciatica relief
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA IMAGE: CT-GUIDED PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY (PRF) WITH TRANSFORAMINAL EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION. A 62-YEAR-OLD WOMAN UNDERWENT PRF FOLLOWED BY TRANSFORAMINAL EPIDURAL STEROID INJECTION FOR SCIATICA DUE TO LEFT CONTAINED INTRAFORAMINAL DISK HERNIATION AT THE L4-5 LEVEL. CREDIT: RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA OAK BROOK, Ill. – Researchers found that a minimally invasive...