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May 2009
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Is Low Back Pain Getting on Your Nerves? The pain and disability of low back pain are the most common reasons patients seek healthcare. Here are tools for diagnosis and treatment options.   |
Nursing
October 2009
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Overturning barriers to pain relief in older adults This article will describe how to lower the barriers to effective pain control in older patients and provide practical tips for helping them receive the full benefit from pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2001 |
Pain Relief After Surgery How will my pain be managed?...How are pain medicines given after surgery?... What should I do to make sure I receive the best possible pain relief?... |
Nursing
June 2008
Yvonne D'arcy |
Nursing2008 Pain Management Survey Report See how your responses to this survey compare with those of nursing colleagues across the country and beyond. |
Managed Care
October 2003
Martin Sipkoff |
Pain Management: Health Plans Need to Take Control Insurers have not focused much on chronic pain. They should. It presents a humanitarian and business opportunity. |
Nurse Practitioner
December 2011 |
Managing pain in obese patients Obesity-related pain conditions can limit the patient's efforts at increasing activity and limit quality of life. This article will offer information on these conditions and treatment options. |
Nursing Management
March 2012
Yvonne D'Arcy |
Pain and obesity It can be a challenge to provide effective pain management for obese patients; however, a multimodal pain management regimen that combines medications and complementary techniques can help increase pain relief. |
BusinessWeek
January 17, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
No Pain, Some Gain The 50 million Americans suffering from chronic pain got a little bit of good news in December. The Food & Drug Administration greenlighted two new medications that attack pain in completely novel ways. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2011
Jablonski et al. |
The Use of Algorithms in Assessing and Managing Persistent Pain in Older Adults This article introduces readers to the use of algorithms in guiding the assessment and management of persistent pain in older adults, and provides an illustrative case study. |
American Family Physician
August 2001
Saud Suleiman & David E. Johnston |
The Abdominal Wall: An Overlooked Source of Pain When abdominal pain is chronic and unremitting, with minimal or no relationship to eating or bowel function but often a relationship to posture (i.e., lying, sitting, standing), the abdominal wall should be suspected as the source of pain... |
Health
May 2007
Melanie Haiken |
Smart Ways to Banish Pain Women are not small men when it comes to pain treatment. Here are better options for women: Antidepressants... Neuropathic pain relievers... etc. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Pain-Free Phase 2 Data Anesiva's pain medication is moving up the clinical trial ladder. The Adlea results are very promising, but investors should look at the state of the entire company before investing. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2010
Mary Curry Narayan |
Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain. |
American Family Physician
February 1, 2005
Maizels & McCarberg |
Antidepressants and Antiepileptic Drugs for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain The development of newer classes of antidepressants and second-generation antiepileptic drugs has created unprecedented opportunities for the treatment of chronic pain. These drugs modulate pain transmission by interacting with specific neurotransmitters and ion channels. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
"Pacemakers" for the Rest of You Slews of tiny devices that deliver electrical stimulation to a wide variety of organs should soon become available. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2009 |
Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 1 Despite advances in topical wound care and pharmacology, and a growing emphasis on palliative care, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Rewiring The Body First came pacemakers. Now exotic implants are bringing new hope to victims of epilepsy, paralysis, depression, and other diseases. And some of the biggest names in health care are in a scramble to get into the market. |
Salon.com
October 2, 2000
Lynn O'Dell |
Pain in the brain The good news? The hurt is all in your mind. The bad news? The hurt is all in your mind... |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Building on Pfizer's Blockbuster New data for an expanded indication for Lyrica. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2001
Karl E. Miller |
Challenges in Pain Management at the End of Life Effective pain management in the terminally ill patient requires an understanding of pain control strategies. Ongoing assessment of pain is crucial and can be accomplished using various forms and scales... |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2009
Patricia Connor-Ballard |
Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 2 Despite advances in treatment of burn injuries and their consequent pain, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury. |
Nurse Practitioner
May 2012
Hammersla & Kapustin |
Peripheral Neuropathy: Evidence-based treatment of a complex disorder Peripheral neuropathy is a common and often progressive condition frequently seen in primary care. The chronic pain associated with PN, or neuropathic pain, can significantly diminish patients' quality of life and be challenging to treat. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2010
Baldridge & Andrasek |
Pain Assessment in People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Nurses in all settings need to be knowledgeable about alternate pain assessment methods. |
Health
July 2007
Curt Pesmen |
Surgery to Avoid #5: Lower-Back Surgery Endoscopic or the traditional lumbar-disc repair surgeries relieve lower-back pain in 85 to 90 percent of cases, but there may be easier solutions. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2004
Snyder, Doggett & Turkelson |
Treatment of Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis This article reviews the evidence for conservative and surgical treatments for the disease that causes leg pain and difficulty walking, usually in elderly patients. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Managed Care
June 2005
Thomas Morrow |
Spinal Disc Technology Seeks To Replace Body's Engineering Marvel Vertebral fusion and disc replacement are comparable, but shorter recovery time for disc replacement makes it attractive. |
AskMen.com
May 6, 2014
Patrick Roth |
Two Birds, Meet One Stone: Why You Should Be Doing Back Exercises Now Not surprisingly, vanity ends up being a more sustainable motivator than pain reduction. |
Health
June 2007
Melanie Haiken |
The Best New Pain Cures?... For Women New research shows that pain can often be prevented if women use the right treatment. Here's what you should know. |
Nursing
September 2008
Susan Simmons Holcomb |
Acute Abdomen: What a Pain! So many things - some life-threatening - can cause abdominal pain. Here's how to capture the clues quickly and accurately. |
Nursing
January 2010
Susan Simmons |
Guillain-Barre syndrome: A nursing nightmare that usually ends well GBS is the leading cause of acute flaccid paralysis; its most common presentation is characterized by ascending, symmetric paralysis that usually affects the cranial nerves and the autonomic nervous system. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2001
Allan Gottschalk & David S. Smith |
New Concepts in Acute Pain Therapy: Preemptive Analgesia Preemptive analgesia, an evolving clinical concept, involves the introduction of an analgesic regimen before the onset of noxious stimuli, with the goal of preventing sensitization of the nervous system to subsequent stimuli that could amplify pain... |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2012
Marc Wortman |
Where Does It Hurt? Researchers are getting to the molecular details of pain's circuitry to answer the question with real specificity. |
Nursing
July 2011
Susan Simmons |
Recognizing and Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis Here's what rheumatoid arthritis is, how it's diagnosed and treated, and what you can do to help patients manage the disease. |
Inc.
October 1, 2009
Adam Bluestein |
The Future of the Human Body Ten innovations that will improve quality of life - and bring down health care costs. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2001
Daisy Arce |
Recognizing Spinal Cord Emergencies Physicians who work in primary care settings and emergency departments frequently evaluate patients with neck and back pain. Spinal cord emergencies are uncommon, but injury must be recognized early so that the diagnosis can be quickly confirmed... |
Wired
February 2005
Steve Silberman |
The Painful Truth The Iraq war is a new kind of hell, with more survivors - but more maimed, shattered limbs - than ever. A revolution in battlefield medicine is helping them conquer the pain. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2008
Horgas & Miller |
Pain Assessment in People with Dementia The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale has been designed to assess pain in this population by looking at five specific indicators. |
American Family Physician
April 1, 2002
Deardre Chao |
Spinal Epidural Abscess: A Diagnostic Challenge Epidural abscess of the spinal column is a rare condition that can be fatal if left untreated. The signs and symptoms of epidural abscess are nonspecific and can range from low back pain to sepsis... |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2002
David J. Alvarez |
Trigger Points: Diagnosis and Management Trigger points are discrete, focal, hyperirritable spots located in a taut band of skeletal muscle. They produce pain locally and in a referred pattern and often accompany chronic musculoskeletal disorders... |
Nurse Practitioner
April 2012
Firestone et al. |
Optimizing fibromyalgia management This article summarizes current information regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic standards, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments necessary to successfully manage FM. |
American Journal of Nursing
May 2012
Benson et al. |
Original Research: The Effects of Active Warming on Patient Temperature and Pain After Total Knee Arthroplasty Total knee arthroplasty is a procedure with associated risks of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and significant postoperative pain. Hypothermia may affect patients' experience of postoperative pain, although the link is not well understood. |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2007 |
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome A patient guide: What are the symptoms of PFPS?... How is it treated?... Will I need surgery?... Will the pain come back?... |
The Motley Fool
May 29, 2007
Brian Lawler |
The One Development-Stage Drug Stock to Own Now With such a low level of Remoxy sales baked into its share price, and minimal clinical trial risk, investors who consider Pain Therapeutics around today's share price won't be hurting in the long run, if you assume there will be a viable market for abuse-resistant opioids. |
Knowledge@Wharton
March 26, 2003 |
An Aging, Fatter Population Drives Demand for New Medical Devices The use of implantable devices to treat heart disease, orthopedic complaints and other conditions is growing strongly because of advancing technology, increasing demand from an ageing and overweight population, and greater acceptance by physicians and patients of implantation. |
Nurse Practitioner
May 2012
Diana L. Wadlund |
Meeting the challenge of IBS IBS is the best studied, most common functional GI disorder, and is often characterized by debilitating symptoms without any pathologic findings. The predominant symptoms of IBS are abdominal pain and an alteration in bowel habits with an absence of organic pathology. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2005
Cole, Seto & Gazewood |
Plantar Fasciitis: Evidence-Based Review of Diagnosis and Therapy Most interventions used to manage plantar fasciitis have not been studied adequately; however, shoe inserts, stretching exercises, steroid injection, and custom-made night splints may be beneficial. |
Managed Care
October 2007
Thomas Morrow |
Artificial Disc Now Available, But is it Better Than Other Therapies? The Prestige Cervical Disc system can replace a single disc from C3 to C7 and gives people with cervical disc disease another viable treatment option. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
Data on St. Jude Migraine Treatment "Impressive" An effective migraine treatment would be very valuable for St. Jude. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2002 |
Vertebroplasty for Spine Fracture Pain How are spinal fractures treated?... What is percutaneous vertebroplasty?... What is the recovery like?... Is the procedure safe?... How do I know if vertebroplasty is right for me?... How successful is vertebroplasty?... etc. |
