Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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To establish the prevalence of post traumatic headache, persisting at 3 months following minor traumatic brain injury. ⋯ To the authors' knowledge this is the first controlled prospective study in the prevalence of posttraumatic headache following mild traumatic brain injury.
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This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy and safety of gabapentin monotherapy in the management of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain. ⋯ Gabapentin monotherapy seems to be well tolerated and useful for the management of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain.
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To identify associations between prescription coverage and cancer pain and its sequelae in indigent patients. ⋯ Indigent patients without prescription coverage trended toward reporting more cancer pain, received lower doses of transdermal fentanyl, and trended to lower adherence to pain regimens due to financial reasons. The trends observed in this pilot study will guide the design of a hypothesis-driven regression analysis.
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Exercise performance and chronic pain in chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of pain catastrophizing.
This study aimed to examine the associations between bodily pain, pain catastrophizing, depression, activity limitations/participation restrictions, employment status, and exercise performance in female patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) who experience widespread pain. ⋯ These data provide evidence favoring a significant association between pain catastrophizing, bodily pain, exercise performance, and self-reported disability in female patients with CFS who experience widespread pain. Further prospective longitudinal studying of these variables is required.
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One potential consequence of chronic opioid analgesic administration is a paradoxical increase of pain sensitivity over time. Little scientific attention has been given to how cessation of opioid medication affects the hyperalgesic state. In this study, we examined the effects of opioid tapering on pain sensitivity in chronic pain patients. ⋯ These findings suggest that the withdrawal of opioids in a chronic pain sample leads to an acute increase in pain sensitivity.