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...
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Endometriosis has ‘significant genetic overlap’ with chronic pain conditions
Endometriosis is a disease that can cause pain and infertility, and currently, there is no cure for it. Researchers at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom studied DNA samples from thousands of female participants to see if there is a genetic component underlying endometriosis. The researchers collaborated with 25 teams internationally to obtain and...
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Non-surgical treatment significantly reduces knee pain for adults, especially those 50 and older
by The Reis Group Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation is a minimally invasive treatment for knee pain due to osteoarthritis of the knee, and can significantly reduce pain, especially for adults who are 50 and older, according to new research to be presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix,...
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Injectable tissue provides significant, long-term relief for chronic back pain, finds research
by The Reis Group Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A minimally invasive treatment that injects allograft disk tissue into the spine to relieve pain associated with degenerative disk disease provides significant improvement in pain and function over a sustained period, according to new research to be presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, March 4–9....
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Rapid screening test predicts effectiveness of steroid injections for neck pain
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and several other institutions say they have developed a quick clinical test that predicts which people with neck pain are more likely to benefit from epidural steroid injections, which deliver drugs directly around the spinal nerves to stop nerve inflammation and reduce pain. The...
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How We Treat Acute Pain Could Be Wrong
Emily Shiffer June 17, 2022 In a surprising discovery that flies in the face of conventional medicine, McGill University researchers report that treating pain with anti-inflammatory medication, like ibuprofen or aspirin, may promote pain in the long term. The paper, published in Science Translational Medicine, suggests that inflammation, a normal part of injury recovery, helps resolve acute pain and...