Pain Management
Medical student training effective for opioid use disorder, pain management
NEW ORLEANS —Educating third-year medical students on opioid use disorder and pain management helped prepare them for proper diagnosis and treatment, a speaker said at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.
For opioids, morphine equivalent daily dosage should be ‘guidance but not dogma’
DESTIN, Fla. — Physicians considering opioids for pain should perform manual calculations before consulting conversion charts and online calculators, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.
Pain relief from spinal cord stimulation in diabetic neuropathy sustained at 18 months
SAN DIEGO — Spinal cord stimulation reduces pain and improves quality of life for at least 18 months for most adults with painful diabetic neuropathy, according to a speaker here.
Postpartum pain associated with anxiety severity
SAN DIEGO — Parturients with more severe postpartum pain experienced more severe anxiety, according to a small study presented here.
Interventions reduce opioid prescribing after neck dissection for thyroid cancer
DALLAS — Preoperative counseling and perioperative pain management strategies significantly reduced opioid prescriptions at discharge for patients who underwent lateral neck dissection for thyroid cancer, according to study results.
Women, overweight patients with osteoarthritis most likely to report poor pain relief
Among patients with osteoarthritis, women and individuals who are overweight or obese are most likely to report inadequate pain control, according to a speaker at the 2022 OARSI World Congress.
Treating 'patient-centered problems' the next frontier in rheumatology
Development of rheumatoid arthritis, or another such inflammatory disease, often brings with it a mental toll.
Q&A: Music may be ‘useful, effective and harmless’ pain management strategy
Growing evidence suggests that music therapy can be an effective method for relieving pain, according to researchers.
Q&A: Patients with long-term opioid use face barriers to care that PCPs may fix
Patients on long-term opioid treatment struggle to receive continuous, high-quality care, two experts wrote in a research letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Panel warns of further opioid devastation, urges new initiatives to curb epidemic
Unless “urgent interventions” occur, North America could see 1.2 million additional opioid overdose deaths by 2029, according to a commission formed in response to rising opioid-related mortality rates.