Pain Control News

July 4, 2024

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Too Much Treadmill? This Could Help Your Shin Splints

July 2, 2024 — Good news for all the treadmill runners who suffer from stubborn shin splints: A little outdoor gait training may help, new research ...

Could Preventative Drug Be Effective in People With Migraine and Rebound Headache?

June 26, 2024 — A drug used to prevent migraine may also be effective in people with migraine who experience rebound headaches, according to a new ...

Chilling Discovery: Study Reveals Evolution of Human Cold and Menthol Sensing Protein, Offering Hope for Future Non-Addictive Pain Therapies

June 21, 2024 — Menthol sensing appeared long before cold sensing, suggesting distinct activation modes that can be disentangled, paving the way for new pain therapies without adverse thermal side ...

Walking Brings Huge Benefits for Low Back Pain

June 20, 2024 — Adults with a history of low back pain went nearly twice as long without a recurrence of their back pain if they walked regularly, a world-first study has ...

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Palliative Care Beneficial to Manage Symptoms, Improve Quality of Life for People With CVD

July 1, 2024 — Key features of palliative care include medication management, shared decision-making and goal-oriented ...

Confronting Trauma Alleviates Chronic Pain Among Older Veterans

June 13, 2024 — A new study found chronic pain among older adults could be significantly reduced through a newly developed psychotherapy that works by confronting past trauma and stress-related emotions that can ...

Painful Truth About Knee Osteoarthritis: Why Inactivity May Be More Complex Than We Think

June 11, 2024 — Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of pain and joint stiffness. And while physical activity is known to ease symptoms, only one in 10 people ...

Reading Pleasure and Pain from the Brain

June 11, 2024 — Researchers have revealed how the brain processes emotions related to sustained pain and ...

Study Shows First Evidence of Male-Female Differences in How Pain Can Be Produced

June 10, 2024 — Research suggests that males and females differ in their experience of pain, but up until now, no one knew ...

Drug Used to Treat Eczema May Provide Relief for Patients With Intensely Itchy Skin Diseases

June 6, 2024 — A drug approved to treat eczema provided significant improvement in the symptoms of patients with severe itching diseases that currently have no ...

Oral Insulin Drops Offer Relief for Diabetes Patients [UPDATED 2024-06-07]

June 5, 2024 — Diabetes rates continue to rise. Scientists have now created a pain-free drug delivery method to help people with diabetes manage the disease and maintain their health more easily. Researchers have ...

New Machine Learning Method Can Better Predict Spine Surgery Outcomes

June 3, 2024 — Researchers combine AI and mobile health to predict recovery from lumbar spine ...

Study Examines Prescribing Patterns of Drug Associated With Cognitive Impairment

May 30, 2024 — A new study is one of the first explorations of prescribing patterns of tricyclic antidepressants for treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy at ...

Tracking Down the Genetic Causes of Lupus to Personalize Treatment

May 23, 2024 — Treatment of autoimmune diseases like lupus has long relied on steroids to knock down the immune system, but more targeted therapies are currently undergoing clinical trials. To make sure these ...

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Clinical Decision Support Software Can Prevent 95% of Medication Errors in the Operating Room, Study Shows

June 13, 2024 — Findings indicate that such software can dramatically improve patient safety during ...

'I Feel Like I'm Alice in Wonderland': Why Nightmares and 'Daymares' Could Be Early Warning Signs of Autoimmune Disease

May 20, 2024 — An increase in nightmares and hallucinations -- or 'daymares' -- could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as ...

Gene Therapy Relieves Back Pain, Repairs Damaged Disc in Mice

May 16, 2024 — Disc-related back pain may one day meet its therapeutic match: gene therapy delivered by naturally derived nanocarriers that, a new study shows, repairs damaged discs in the spine and lowers pain ...

New Study Shows Certain Combinations of Antiviral Proteins Are Responsible for Lupus Symptoms and Affect Treatment Outcomes

May 13, 2024 — Researchers say they have uncovered insights as to why lupus symptoms and severity present differently in individuals with the autoimmune condition, which affects up to 1.5 million Americans. The ...

Neuropathy Very Common, Underdiagnosed

May 8, 2024 — Neuropathy, the nerve damage that causes pain and numbness in the feet and hands and can eventually lead to falls, infection and even amputation, is very common and underdiagnosed, according to a new ...

Gentle Defibrillation for the Heart

Apr. 23, 2024 — Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

Dietary Treatment More Effective Than Medicines in IBS

Apr. 19, 2024 — Dietary treatment is more effective than medications in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). With dietary adjustments, more than seven out of ten patients had significantly reduced ...

Potential New Treatment Path for Lasting Lyme Disease Symptoms

Apr. 18, 2024 — Researchers have identified a potential new treatment for persistent neurological symptoms of Lyme disease, commonly seen even after antibiotic use. The study found that fibroblast growth factor ...

Molecular Causes of Different Functions of Opioid Receptors

Apr. 12, 2024 — Drugs that target opioid receptors sometimes have severe side effects. Thousands of people around the world die every day from overdoses involving opioids such as fentanyl. Researchers have taken a ...

Why Some People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Have Pain Without Inflammation

Apr. 11, 2024 — Researchers have identified a suite of genes explaining the disconnect between diagnosis and ...

Safety of a Potential New Treatment to Manage Complications from Sickle Cell Disease

Apr. 11, 2024 — A drug approved to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension may be effective at managing hypertension and end-organ damage in patients with sickle cell disease, according to a new study. An early phase ...

New Consensus Statement Aims to Improve Endometriosis Evaluation

Apr. 9, 2024 — A new expert consensus statement aims to improve endometriosis evaluation. Endometriosis is a common condition with substantial diagnostic delay, leading patients to experience pain, infertility, ...

No Link Between Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children's Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability, Says Large Sibling Study

Apr. 9, 2024 — In the largest study to date on the subject, researchers found no evidence to support a causal link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD and intellectual ...

How the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Enters Our Cells

Mar. 28, 2024 — Researchers have identified how the tick-borne Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells. The results are an important step in the development of drugs against the deadly ...

Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?

Mar. 27, 2024 — Reserachers found that people who were more active in their free time had a lower chance of having various types of chronic pain 7-8 years later. For example, being just a little more active, such as ...

Gene Discovery Offers New Hope for People Living With Chronic Skin Disease

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a gene mutation is responsible for causing psoriasis -- a chronic inflammatory skin disease that causes patients to develop red, scaly and itchy patches across their body. ...

Earlier Retirement for People With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Mar. 20, 2024 — Frequent musculoskeletal pain is linked with an increased risk of exiting work and retiring earlier, according to a new ...

Early Identification of Persistent Pain Plus Holistic Interventions Cut Opioid Use

Mar. 20, 2024 — In a new study, researchers found that a carefully worded, short questionnaire successfully identified people who were most likely to develop chronic pain. These patients were then steered to a more ...

Poor Sleep Linked to Migraine Attacks

Mar. 13, 2024 — A new study has identified a link between poor sleep and migraine attacks that suggests improving sleep health may diminish migraine attacks in people with ...

Doctors Can Now Watch Spinal Cord Activity During Surgery

Mar. 7, 2024 — Scientists can make high resolution images of the human spinal cord during surgery. The advancement could help bring real relief to millions suffering chronic back ...