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Top read pain management articles highlight patient education
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The most highly accessed articles about pain management in rheumatology included a survey about NSAIDs. Other articles of interest highlighted fatigue associated with pain and issues related to fibromyalgia.
Survey: Patients with pain cannot identify NSAIDs, do not discuss pain with their physicians
Although an Iroko Pharmaceuticals-funded survey of 1,056 American adults showed 77% of those surveyed experienced at least some type of pain and 43% experienced pain weekly, half of respondents were unfamiliar with NSAIDs. Iroko is consulting with the Arthritis Foundation to further evaluate the survey results, according to a company press release. Read more.
Pain and fatigue linked to perception of function in women with fibromyalgia
In a recently published study of women with fibromyalgia, investigators found pain and fatigue explained at least one-third of the variance in patients’ perceived physical performance and function. Read more.
Study: Paracetamol not efficacious for treatment of osteoarthritis pain
According to researchers, paracetamol is not effective for the treatment of osteoarthritis pain regardless of dose, and patients responded more favorably to treatment with 150-mg diclofenac. Read more.
Patients with fibromyalgia may have pain improvement with acupuncture
Individualized treatment with acupuncture in a primary care setting provided patients with fibromyalgia with pain relief compared to patients who received a placebo treatment, and the effects were persistent at 1 year, according to researchers in Spain. Read more.