Pain Management News

A considerable proportion of rheumatology patients may have a history of abuse, trauma or post-traumatic stress that contributes an emotional component to their physical pain.

Humans have had an insatiable appetite for inhibiting production of prostaglandins for centuries! This series delves into the history of aspirin and NSAIDs, looking at the understanding of the prostaglandin pathway.

DESTIN, Fla. — Clinical practice guidelines for chronic pain sometimes emerge through flawed processes, present conflicting statements, and warrant close evaluation, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.

DESTIN, Fla. — Physicians can consider cannabis before opioids for chronic pain when other options have been exhausted, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.

Patients who receive combination therapy with paracematol, ibuprofen and dexamethasone demonstrate the lowest morphine consumption in the 24 hours following total hip arthroplasty, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Is it an allergy or an autoimmune vasculitis, or a little of both? Find out the story of urticarial vasculitis, how this disease was recognized and eventually sorted out from other types of urticaria.

Despite the placebo effect’s long history in medicine — not to mention the critical role placebo plays in randomized trials — the mechanism driving it remains poorly understood.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Understanding the science of pain can help rheumatologists better manage fibromyalgia and other chronic conditions, according to a presenter at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Understanding the relationship between mental and physical distress is essential to breaking the cycle of chronic pain, according to a presenter at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

The FDA has expanded approval for Boston Scientific’s WaveWriter spinal cord stimulation system to include treatment of chronic low back and leg pain in patients who have not had previous back surgery.