Tyler Rice

Patients on long-term opioid treatment for chronic pain reported experiencing negative physical side effects, emotional distress, and degraded relationships with their primary care provider.

Premenopausal women who undergo prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy are especially prone to postoperative bone loss, which may be mitigated by hormone replacement therapy.

Patients with osteoporosis who maintain good oral hygiene can use zoledronic acid to effectively prevent symptomatic periodontal disease and tooth loss.

A large percentage of individuals with early rheumatoid arthritis reported unacceptable levels of pain or widespread pain, regardless of smoking status.

The number of comorbidities in individuals with fibromyalgia may be associated with the severity of fibromyalgia-related variables and the prevalence of fibromyalgia.

Older women with significant abdominal aortic calcification are more likely to experience incident clinical fractures.

Many patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis may experience pain interference, which can be associated with greater pain intensity, disability, and pain anxiety and less leisure-time activity.

A major osteoporotic fracture was recorded in 37.5% of participants, with incidence rates of 43%, 29.2%, and 33.1% in the RA, SLE, and primary Sjögren syndrome groups, respectively.

Bone turnover markers and Trabecular Bone Score might be useful tools to identify transmenopausal women who are at greater risk for bone loss.

Poor sleep quality was linked to increased pain and fatigue in older adults with symptomatic osteoarthritis.

Patients who decreased opioid use while undergoing basivertebral nerve ablation were found to experience greater relief of chronic low back pain than those who increased opioid use.

Daily measurements of pain in patients with hip osteoarthritis may not be more precise than retrospective measurements.

Patients with or at high risk for osteoporosis should take the lowest possible dosage of vitamin D3 with the shortest possible interval.

Patients with low vitamin D levels who take vitamin D supplements might experience suppressed bone turnover, potentially from parathyroid hormone reduction.

There may be a bidirectional relationship between fibromyalgia and migraine.

Lumbar range of motion in individuals with chronic low back pain may be predicted by task-specific measures of pain-related fear.

A set of factors may be associated with dysfunctional low back pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

There is no association between dietary calcium intake and postmenopausal bone loss.

Ibuprofen may represent a safe and effective oral analgesic option following hip arthroplasty.

Adolescents with atypical anorexia nervosa have higher bone mass density on average than adolescents with anorexia nervosa, but still experience significant deficits in fat mass index.

A panel of experts addressed several challenges associated with the implementation of the 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.

Nearly a third of patients scheduled to undergo surgery for hip, knee, or spine osteoarthritis were found to use prescription opioids.

Lateral wedge shoe insoles may improve knee pain in individuals with painful medial knee osteoarthritis.

Normalization of temporal summation and of conditioned pain modulation may be associated with pain reduction in knee osteoarthritis.

Improvements in BMD with osteoporosis therapies may be useful endpoints for fracture in trials of new therapeutic agents.

Measuring serum estradiol during the menopausal transition might help identify women at higher risk for fractures.

Pre-surgical pain catastrophizing may be independently associated with quality of life in patients with severe hip osteoarthritis.

Gender-affirming hormonal treatment does not negatively affect bone mineral density in transgender people.

Psychological flexibility in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and in their parents may represent resilience factors for dealing with pain and disability associated with the condition.

Insulin resistance may play an intermediary role in the relationship between adiposity and lumbar spine bone mass in adolescents.