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Can thermal biofeedback reduce pain and anxiety?
Device reduced anxiety scores by 22% in small study.
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Childhood trauma linked to adult headache
“Clinicians who treat primary headaches in adults “should routinely screen for ACEs, educate patients on the connection between ACEs and health,...
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Predictors of prescription opioid overdose
“Awareness of, and attention to, several patient and prescription characteristics may help reduce the risk of opioid overdose among people living...
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Antidepressants ‘don’t blunt’ semaglutide and weight loss
“Semaglutide 2.4 mg provides an effective treatment option for weight management, regardless of antidepressant use at baseline.”
From the Journals
CBT linked to reduced pain, less catastrophizing in fibromyalgia
Cognitive behavioral therapy improves pain interference, reduces catastrophizing, and alters pain-related brain circuitry in female patients with...
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Poor sleep and chronic pain prove pesky bedfellows
Two methods used by torturers – pain infliction and sleep deprivation – harm people in ways that also are experienced by many patients with pain...
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How much pain is in the mind? This doctor thinks the answer is, most
My feeling is that these psychosocial interventions are easy to try, relatively inexpensive, noninvasive, and, in my experience, often can lead to...
Commentary
A new and completely different pain medicine
Patients assigned to the highest dose of VX-548 had a statistically significant lower cumulative amount of pain in the 48 hours after surgery.
Commentary
Will this trial help solve chronic back pain?
Physicians are trained that if there’s pain, there’s something wrong and we have to do surgery or there’s been some trauma. Most chronic pain is...
From the Journals
Oxycodone tied to persistent use only after vaginal delivery
Oxycodone receipt was not associated with persistent opioid use, compared with codeine.
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Functional MRI shows that empathetic remarks reduce pain
“These results prove that empathy and support can decrease pain intensity.”