Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Case Reports
Mechanisms underlying chronic whiplash: contributions from an incomplete spinal cord injury?
To explore the association between findings on advanced, but available, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences of the cervical spinal cord and muscular system, in tandem with biomechanical measures of maximum volitional plantar flexion torques as a proxy for a mild incomplete spinal cord injury. ⋯ The potential value of MRI to quantify neuromuscular degeneration in chronic whiplash is recognized. Larger scaled prospective studies are warranted before stronger conclusions can be drawn.
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To examine health care utilization among veterans with both chronic pain and posttraumatic stress symptoms. ⋯ Our findings support our expectation that veterans with both pain and PTSD symptoms use more health care services than those with pain or PTSD symptoms alone. Research is needed to assess the health care costs associated with increases in health care utilization among these veterans.
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The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients referred with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) diagnosis to a tertiary care pain center. ⋯ Besides fulfilling the Budapest CRPS diagnostic criteria, the most important other factor for diagnosing CRPS is the exclusion of a neuropathic, musculoskeletal, or non-biomedical condition accounting for the presentation.
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Letter Case Reports Clinical Trial
Can you help when it hurts? Dogs as potential pain relief stimuli for children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.