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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
