chronic pain

  1. Dx Revision Watch

    Article series in Guardian, June 2021: The pain that can't be seen. (chronic pain, Long Covid, ME/CFS)

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/28/health-systems-should-be-prepared-doctors-brace-for-tsunami-of-long-covid ‘Health systems should be prepared’: doctors brace for tsunami of long Covid As the debilitating post-viral condition affects millions around the world, medical...
  2. Dolphin

    Chronic pain syndromes in childhood, 2021, Schechter (Oxford Textbook of Pediatric Pain)

    Chronic pain syndromes in childhood, 2021, Schechter (Oxford Textbook of Pediatric Pain) Written from a biopsychosocial perspective and looks annoying. I seem to be able to see all or nearly all of it here...
  3. M

    Efficacy and safety of antidepressants ... treatment of back pain and osteoarthritis, 2021, Ferreira et al

    CITATION: Ferreira GE et al. Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for the treatment of back pain and osteoarthritis: Systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2021 Jan 20; 372:m4825. (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4825)
  4. Sly Saint

    The prevalence of psychiatric and chronic pain comorbidities in fibromyalgia: An ACTTION systematic review, 2020, Kleykamp et al

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049017220303012?dgcid=rss_sd_all
  5. Andy

    A retrospective observational study .. somatosensory amplification in [FM], chronic pain, psychiatric disorders & healthy subjects, 2020, Ciaramella

    Full title: A retrospective observational study comparing somatosensory amplification in fibromyalgia, chronic pain, psychiatric disorders and healthy subjects Paywall...
  6. M

    New Screening Tool May Predict Chronic Pain Before It Starts, 2020, Brown and Lee

    I am a bit skeptical about this. https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/new-screening-tool-may-predict-chronic-pain-before-it-starts/
  7. rvallee

    Cochrane Review: Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults, 2020, C De C Williams et al

    Moderation note: A number of posts have been moved from New draft NICE guidelines for chronic pain emphasises exercise, CBT and acupuncture over medication ******** Things are horribly broken here. Here is a discussion of Cochrane's evaluation of the evidence...
  8. cassava7

    Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference, Rethorn et. al, 2020

    Rethorn ZD, Pettitt RW, Dykstra E, Pettitt CD (2020) Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236734. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236734 Abstract:
  9. Esther12

    New draft NICE guidelines for chronic pain emphasises exercise, CBT and acupuncture over medication

    http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/gps-should-not-prescribe-opioids-for-chronic-pain-says-nice/20041262.article I've not been impressed by the evidence that painkillers improve outcomes over the long-term for chronic pain, but I also think it's important that it's patients themselves who get to...
  10. Ravn

    Journal of Nuclear Medicine: 18F-FDG PET/MRI of patients with chronic pain alters management (2020)

    Pain made objectively visible on a scan? J Nucl Med May 1, 2020 vol. 61 no. supplement 1 399 Peter Cipriano1, Daehyun Yoon2, Ian Carroll3, Catherine Curtin4, Vivianne Tawfik5, Yingding Xu6 and Sandip Biswal7...
  11. Andy

    Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Syndrome Compared with Other Common Chronic Pain Diagnoses, 2020, Molander et al

    Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/7/2143/htm
  12. Sly Saint

    JOGO Health Launches COVID-19 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study May 2020

    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jogo-health-launches-covid-19-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-study-301058714.html
  13. Andy

    Chronic Pain Syndromes and Their Laryngeal Manifestations, 2020, Piersiala et al

    Paywall, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2764772 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.0000/jamanetwork.com/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2764772 Editorial: The Puzzle of Medically Unexplained Symptoms—A Holistic View of the Patient With Laryngeal Symptoms...
  14. Sly Saint

    Editorial: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for chronic pain: the opportunity to begin again : Travers, Eccleston et al Apr 2020

    Mervyn J Travers Neil E O'Connell Peter Tugwell Christopher Eccleston William Gibson https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.ED000139/full
  15. Cheshire

    Serious Gaming [...] for PW Chronic Pain or Fatigue Symptoms: Mixed Methods Design of a Realist Process Evaluation (2020) Vrijhoef et al.

    Full title and authors: Serious Gaming During Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation for Patients With Chronic Pain or Fatigue Symptoms: Mixed Methods Design of a Realist Process Evaluation Miel AP Vugts, Aglaia MEE Zedlitz, Margot CW Joosen, Hubertus JM Vrijhoef https://www.jmir.org/2020/3/e14766/...
  16. ME/CFS Science Blog

    The unbearable lightness of somatisation: A systematic review of the concept of somatisation in empirical studies of pain (2009) by Crombez et al.

    This is from the same Belgian researchers who recently published a critical review of pain catastrophizing measures, discussed here. https://insights.ovid.com/article/00006396-200909000-00011
  17. MSEsperanza

    Embodied: The psychology of physical sensation (2015) by C. Eccleston

    Embodied: The psychology of physical sensation by Christopher Eccleston Oxford University Press 2015 E-book: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198727903.001.0001/acprof-9780198727903 Chapter 6 about fatigue deals with "chronic fatigue" as identical with "Chronic...
  18. Esther12

    Guardian - Chronic pain: prescribe mental health support as well as drugs, say experts (Feb 2020)

    Not particularly interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/05/chronic-pain-prescribe-mental-health-support-as-well-as-drugs-say-experts Some very brief info on the sort of 'support' that could be provided - also I found it interesting that they talked of improving 'reported...
  19. Hoopoe

    Patients with ME/CFS and chronic pain report similar level of sickness behavior as individuals injected with bacterial endotoxin... 2019, Jonsjö et al

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666354619300298
  20. Sly Saint

    Body mass in adolescents with chronic pain: observational study - Gauntlett-Gilbert, Bhat,Clinch 2019

    https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2019/11/28/archdischild-2019-317843?rss=1
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