Pain Catastrophizing Predicts Menstrual Pain Ratings in Adolescent Girls with Chronic Pain
ConclusionResults demonstrate differences in relationships among menstrual pain, acute laboratory pain, and psychological variables in girls with no pain compared with girls with chronic pain. In addition, pain catastrophizing may be a particularly salient factor associated with menstrual pain in girls with chronic pain that warrants further investigation. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 27, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Laura A. Payne, Andrea J. Rapkin, Kirsten C. Lung, Laura C. Seidman, Lonnie K. Zeltzer, Jennie C.I. Tsao Tags: Original Source Type: research
Computer Tablet Distraction in Children Receiving an Injection
ConclusionsThe use of a tablet as a distraction was not effective in decreasing pain and distress in children receiving an injection. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 27, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Sherwood Burns‐Nader, Stephanie Atencio, Magdalena Chavez Tags: Research Source Type: research
Snapping Thumb and Superficial Radial Nerve Entrapment in De Quervain Disease: Ultrasound Imaging/Guidance Revisited
(Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 27, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Ke‐Vin Chang, Chen‐Yu Hung, Levent Özçakar Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
Willingness to Use Pain Medication to Treat Pain
ConclusionsThese components are useful for future research on the willingness to use pain medicine and may have implications for assessing cognitive barriers toward pain and pain management among the general public. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 27, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Seokho Hong, John G. Cagle, Daniel J. Van Dussen, Iraida V. Carrion, Krystal L. Culler Tags: Original Research Article Source Type: research
Diagnostic Nihilism Toward Low Back Pain: What Once Was Accepted, Should No Longer Be
(Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 27, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Michael J. DePalma Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
The Promise of Effective Pain Treatment Outcomes: Rallying Academic Centers to Lead the Charge
(Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 27, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Christopher J. Gilligan, David Borsook Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
Differences in Neural Mechanosensitivity Between Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain With and Without Neuropathic Features. A Descriptive Cross ‐Sectional Study
Pain Medicine, EarlyView. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 16, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research
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Pain Medicine, Ahead of Print. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 16, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research
Differences in Neural Mechanosensitivity Between Patients with Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain With and Without Neuropathic Features. A Descriptive Cross‐Sectional Study
ConclusionsThe findings of this study suggest that chronic nonspecific neck pain patients with NF have greater neural mechanosensitivity, pain intensity, and neck disability than those with No‐NF. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 16, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Ibai López‐de‐Uralde‐Villanueva, Hector Beltran‐Alacreu, Josué Fernández‐Carnero, Alfonso Gil‐Martínez, Roy La Touche Tags: Original Source Type: research
Large Buttocks Hematoma Caused by Deep Tissue Massage Therapy
(Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 15, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Fu Sun, Qi‐Ling Yuan, Yin‐Gang Zhang Tags: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Source Type: research
Are Pain Ratings Irrelevant?
Abstract
Pain intensity ratings have been the basis of pain diagnosis and a fundamental tool in pain research, but are not always used. Frequent comments by physicians that pain ratings, sometimes called pain scores, are not useful in clinical practice and comments by basic scientists that pain ratings may measure the wrong thing, have been in significant part supported by a short survey conducted among members of American Pain Society (APS). Though limited by small number of respondents, the findings of this survey and additional comments by members of APS raise critical questions about why pain ratings do not serve the c...
Source: Pain Medicine - July 15, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Miroslav “Misha” Bačkonja, John T. Farrar Tags: PERSPECTIVE & COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Pain Phenotypes and Associated Clinical Risk Factors Following Traumatic Amputation: Results from Veterans Integrated Pain Evaluation Research (VIPER)
Pain Medicine, EarlyView. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 14, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research
Allopregnanolone Levels are Inversely Associated with Self ‐Reported Pain Symptoms in U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan‐Era Veterans: Implications for Biomarkers and Therapeutics
Pain Medicine, EarlyView. (Source: Pain Medicine)
Source: Pain Medicine - July 14, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research
