Rheumatology

Besides the immediate impact of improperly treated pain, children can experience long-Lasting consequences.

This podcast reviews the myths and misunderstandings that prevent physicians from prescribing opioids to treat chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Synovial inflammation in osteoarthritis (OA) is secondary to mechanical damage to the articular cartilage and bone. OA often is said to be a disease of weight-bearing joints, but it is more appropriate to consider them as load-bearing joints. OA is the failure of an organ, the synovial joint.

Effective chronic pain management requires a structured approach to evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.

Mary Lynn McPherson gave attendees some poignant reminders about methadone treatment in a lively, entertaining, and informative session.

For those treating pediatric patients, the task of identifying symptoms and measuring the levels of pain being experienced is a bit more complicated.

Physicians who treat athletes with traumatic foot and ankle injuries should know when to order special imaging studies, determine whether injuries can be managed in the office or require referral, and return the athlete to sports activity quickly. For simple ankle sprains, plain x-ray films usually are not indicated; functional rehabilitation is a first-line treatment.

Hepatitis C–related arthropathy is one of the most common extrahepatic manifestations of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Although symptoms can be disabling, the prognosis typically is benign. Patients who have atypical chronic inflammatory arthritis with an unknown cause should be evaluated for HCV infection.

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Though not typically their favorite part of practicing, pain medicine practitioners need to be on top of legal and regulatory requirements.

"Unrecognized health care problem" presents complex challenges for both surgeons and primary care physicians seeing patients after surgery.

Clinicians in all settings can teach their patients to use relaxation, meditation and other techniques to achieve relief from chronic pain conditions.

Attendees retired early Tuesday evening judging by the standing-room only attendance at "Pain Mechanisms," one of five concurrent sessions to open PAINWeek.

Newly revised classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) will allow for the study of treatments at much earlier disease stages and lead to better patient outcomes, according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), which created the new criteria in collaboration with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR).

Two new iPhone applications aim to facilitate medical transcription and handling phone calls, activities that still occupy the bulk of time for many physicians.

A new strategy for treating patients who have antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis, a severe form of vasculitis, provides the same benefits as the current standard of care used for more than 40 years but requires less frequent treatments.

The researchers used animal models with torn ACLs to test 3 types of fluids that could be injected into the joints to serve as a substitute for lost synovial fluid: human synoviocyte lubricin that was created in a culture and then purified to be

Women with osteoporosis who previously had fractures experience a significant reduction in health-related quality of life similar to or worse than that experienced by patients with diabetes mellitus

Remission is a realistic goal for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), especially with intensive combination treatment regimens provided early in the disease course. The Disease Activity Score 28 (DAS28) remission criteria appear to be easiest to achieve.

There may be genetic susceptibility factors for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that act only in men. In about 1% of families with SLE, all the patients with SLE are male and the women universally have positive antinuclear antibodies; also, men with SLE have more children with SLE than do women with SLE.

Both fatness and fitness are associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in American youths, but fatness associations are stronger. Although maintaining high levels of fitness and preventing obesity may affect cardiometabolic risk factors positively, obesity prevention may have greater benefit.

Corticosteroid injection in the joints of patients with inflammatory arthritis results in significant alleviation of symptoms and improvement in functional status. Ultrasonography (US)-guided injections are significantly more accurate than clinical examination (CE)-guided injections.

Outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are improved with systematic monitoring of disease activity in daily practice. Needed are a tight control strategy aimed for at least low disease activity and frequent follow-up.

As reported by Reuters, patients taking bisphosphonates for osteoporosis for more than five years may be at greater risk for developing cancer of the oesophagus, according to a British study.

This segment of the TV show, "The Doctor's," discusses a procedure that may help certain chronic knee pain sufferers.

Featured on ABC Affiliate KGUN 9 is a video clip and article on the use of stem cells to treat arthritis.

Do's and Don'ts of Arthritis

DNA samples from the National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank will be released for the first time for use in research, according to a press release.

Though CCHIT will continue to certify EHRs for the ONC, they won't be the only organization doing so.

New research reveals the discovery of a protein that is responsible for regulating body fat and bone mass.