Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of regenerative injection therapy on function and pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized crossover study.
We assessed the effectiveness of regenerative injection therapy (RIT) to relieve pain and restore function in patients with knee osteoarthritis. ⋯ The use of RIT is associated with a marked reduction in symptoms, which was sustained for over 24 weeks.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
An expanded view of self-management: patients' perceptions of education and support in an intervention for chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Chronic pain is prevalent, costly, and is associated with profound psychological effects. Although pain is prevalent in returning veterans of the recent military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation New Dawn [OEF/OIF/OND] Veterans), little is known about chronic pain in these patients. This study's objective was to ascertain perceptions of a multicomponent intervention tested in a randomized controlled trial for OEF/OIF/OND veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain (Evaluation of Stepped Care for Chronic Pain [ESCAPE]). ⋯ Results corroborate previous work and suggest that current conceptualizations of self-management are incomplete. A model is proposed that not only depicts self-management as involving more than activities and strategies, but also acknowledges the central role of relationships and support in pain self-management.
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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae affecting the skin and the nerves. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS/Sudeck's dystrophy) is a painful and disabling condition--a triad of autonomic, sensory, and motor symptoms disproportionate to the inciting event (inflammatory, infective, or traumatic nerve damage). ⋯ Leprous neuropathy caused the nerve damage that lead to CRPS type 2. Very rarely leprosy can lead to CRPS. CRPS is a diagnosis of exclusion.