In patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with anti-inflammatory medications, long-term persistent pain was found to be common and may be predicted by higher levels of disability and a history of smoking.
A comparative chart of narcotic analgesics including formulations, strengths, and dosing intervals.
Between 2014 and 2017, a higher percentage of patients who were prescribed an opioid analgesic resided in rural vs urban areas.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may represent a feasible and efficacious treatment for chronic low back pain.
Nearly a third of patients scheduled to undergo surgery for hip, knee, or spine osteoarthritis were found to use prescription opioids.
Daily use of a high-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (hfTENS) device may reduce pain and improve function in patients with chronic low back pain.
Researchers pharmacologically confirmed the pain phenotype of a noninvasive mechanical joint-loading model of osteoarthritis, thus proposing an alternative murine model for osteoarthritic pain.
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.
Schedules of Controlled Substances categorized by the FDA.
