Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Develop a burn injury model in young age rats. ⋯ Our data suggest that this model may be used to explore the mechanisms of burn injury-induced nociception in young rats and to differentiate the sequelae from burn injury between adult and young rats under certain experimental conditions.
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The pain stages of change questionnaire (PSOCQ) has been designed to assess the willingness of chronic pain patients to engage in self-management approaches. This study sought to examine the utility of the PSOCQ as a predictor of treatment completion and the relationship with treatment outcome. ⋯ These findings suggest that the PSOCQ may be useful in making treatment more efficient, both by predicting who is less likely complete treatment and by providing targeted treatments according to patients' readiness to engage in self-management.
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Case report. ⋯ This case illustrates patient can present with an isolated symptom such as dizziness without headache after PDP. The patient received an EBP with complete resolution of her symptom of postdural dizziness.
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The aim of the current study was to examine the health outcomes of patients suffering from painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (pDPN) over a 3-year period, relative to patients with diabetes but without neuropathic pain and controls. ⋯ Confirming and expanding upon the literature, our results indicate a significantly worse trajectory of quality of life outcomes over time and long-term increased total costs for pDPN patients relative to non-pDPN diabetes patients and controls.