Pain Management

An extract made from Curcuma longa, commonly known as turmeric, outperformed placebo for the treatment of osteoarthritis-related knee pain in older adults but had no significant impact on knee effusion-synovitis or cartilage composition, data showed.

Anita Gupta, DO, PharmD, MPP, GMP, FASA, is a member of Healio Primary Care's Peer Perspective Board. She is adjunct assistant professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is also an expert in health policy, biotechnology, drug development and corporate and government affairs.

Top physicians in sports medicine recommend the use of nonpharmacologic treatments before prescription opioids for management of acute and chronic pain in youth athletes, according to a recently published consensus statement.

Physicians should encourage adults to use NSAIDs, particularly topical ones, to treat acute non-low back pain that stems from musculoskeletal injuries, according to a new guideline from the ACP and American Academy of Family Physicians.

The FDA has approved Olinvyk — the first new IV chemical opioid agonist in decades — for adults with acute pain, the drug’s manufacturer announced.

Calcitonin gene-related peptide, or CGRP, monoclonal antibodies reduced headache frequency among a small cohort of older adults with migraine, data show.

A behavioral pain management intervention was associated with improved pain-related outcomes among individuals with substance use disorders and chronic pain, according to study results published in JAMA Psychiatry.

In patients who had arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, use of a postoperative pain medicine cocktail therapy showed benefits, according to findings.

Vaporized cannabis did not significantly reduce chronic pain and most associated symptoms compared with placebo among adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a randomized study published in JAMA Network Open.

The first 10 websites found during a search of the words “headache” and “migraine” in the international version of Google featured content that required a reading level above what the NIH recommends, according to findings published in Headache.