Chronic Pain
‘Room for improvement’: Treating ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis presents significant challenges in pain management and remains a controversial topic with limited data for efficacy.
Behavioral pain management effective for substance use disorders, chronic pain
Q&A: PCPs on ‘front lines’ in insomnia recognition, care
In the United States, 30% to 35% of adults experience brief symptoms of insomnia and 10% of adults have a chronic insomnia disorder, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Givlaari lowers rate of porphyria attacks
Patients with acute hepatic porphyria treated with Givlaari experienced a lower rate of porphyria attacks, according to results of the ENVISION study.
Opioid-benzodiazepine combination linked to increased mortality in patients on dialysis
Patients with kidney failure who were dispensed a short-acting benzodiazepine in combination with opioids had an increased risk for mortality within 1 year of initiating hemodialysis, according to study results.
‘Is your pain tolerable?’ Asking may result in less risky pain management
Clinicians who ask their patients “is your pain tolerable?” before asking them to rate their pain on the numeric scale may make less risky pain management decisions, according to researchers.
Opioid exposure among patients with hemophilia warrants ‘closer attention’
Acute and chronic bleeding episodes are the most common complications associated with hemophilia.
CBT program ‘works wonders’ for patients with diabetes
A peer-delivered, cognitive behavioral therapy-based intervention improved functioning, pain, quality of life and self-reported physical activity in patients with diabetes and chronic pain, researchers reported in Annals of Family Medicine.
What Is A GI Psychologist?
What is a GI psychologist? Although those of us who identify as GI psychologists often find ourselves explaining what that means to our colleagues, it is exactly what it sounds like: we are psychologists specializing in working with people who have GI conditions. We alternate between academic descriptors “psychogastroenterology” and “gastropsych,” representing the natural marriage of the worlds of psychology and gastroenterology.
Individuals with pain at increased risk for cannabis use disorder
Adults with pain are at increased risk for adverse cannabis use outcomes, including cannabis use disorder, according to study findings published in American Journal of Psychiatry.