Pain

Although many patients suffering with low back pain are initially focused on pain relief, convincing them to shift their focus to prevention and functional improvement can lead to better clinical outcomes and greater patient satisfaction.

Forty percent of patients treated with the uricase drug pegloticase saw complete resolution of one or more gouty tophi within 25 weeks.

Results presented at the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Professionals 2012 annual meeting show that adalimumab and methotrexate are more effective than DMARDs and prednisone in achieving remission in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis or undifferentiated arthritis patients.

Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) may be afraid to volunteer information that helps clinicians accurately diagnose them.

Public health experts at IDWeek 2012 provided updates on new case reports, the CDC's efforts to contain the outbreak of fungal meningitis, information on assessing asymptomatic patients, and more.

The risks are proven. The benefits are questionable. The alternatives are numerous. So is it ever a good idea to prescribe opioids for patients suffering with chronic pain from rheumatoid arthritis?

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A look at interventional pain management statistics, including number of patients receiving facet joint interventions, number of epidural steroid injections for pain, number of spinal cord stimulator systems implanted annually worldwide, and more.

"Urine drug testing (UDT) has become a widely utilized tool across many specialties. Although it was traditionally used more by pain specialists due to concerns over prescription drug abuse, diversion, and misuse, it has become something that family physicians and non-pain specialists rely on more than ever..." A Q&A with Joshua Gunn, PhD

More effective management of rheumatoid arthritis with medication may be contributing to a decline in the need for joint surgery in patients with the condition, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

Doctors may be halting use of anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) medications too early in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients who are set to undergo surgery, researchers at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City have found.

Allowing patients to listen to music with noise-cancelling headphones during a prostate biopsy may reduce their pain perception and anxiety, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.

A majority of practitioners in the United Kingdom advise patients suffering from chronic lower back pain to take a break from work to recuperate, even though guidelines call for patients to remain active and continue working.

Based on a 12-year longitudinal study, researchers have found that 63% of women over 50 report persistent, incident, or intermittent knee pain.

Magnetic resonance imaging does not improve outcomes for patients with sciatica who are candidates for epidural steroid injection and has only a minor effect on decision making regarding treatment for these patients, researchers have found.

Chronic low back pain patients have a significantly increased comorbidity and health care cost burden, a new study finds.

Knee pain associated with osteoarthritis has increased dramatically over the last few decades independent of age and body mass index, though radiographic osteoarthritis has not increased, a new study finds.

Physicians with a financial interest in medical imaging equipment appear to be more likely to refer patients for unnecessary lower back imaging exams, a new study finds.

Being overweight, obese, or tall increases one's likelihood of experiencing low back pain, a new study finds.

Regular yoga classes can help reduce disability for those suffering from chronic or recurrent lower back pain, a study by researchers in the UK finds.

According to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the death rates caused by overdoses of prescription painkillers has more than tripled in the past decade, surpassing the total number of deaths caused by heroin and cocaine combined.

The price to buy Colchicine is going through the roof, causing much concern from the hundreds of thousands of people taking the medication each year.

The medical marijuana debate isn't going away any time soon. See what our experts have to say about the latest information and tell us what you think.

With Michael Clark, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The medical marijuana debate isn't going away any time soon. See what our experts have to say about the latest information and tell us what you think.

Regular exercise worked as well as medication and guided relaxation as a therapy to reduce migraine frequency in a Swedish trial.

Alexander Mauskop, MD, director of the New York Headache Center, discusses the symptoms of optical migraines.

St. Jude Medical, Inc. has received approval in Europe for an implanted neurostimulator designed to treat intractable chronic migraine.

New patent has been issued for doxidopa to treat fibromyalgia and its debilitating symptoms.