Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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This study investigated the efficacy of vibration technology for women with hand pain due to osteoarthritis (OA) to see if mild compression and small vibrating motors were beneficial with periodic use. ⋯ Overall, the results demonstrated that the vibrating gloves were moderately helpful in reducing hand pain in women with OA (53.5%), and most expressed willingness to use the gloves (71.4%) and use the pain app (55.8%) in the future. Additional studies to determine the mechanism of action of the gloves in managing pain would be recommended.
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To describe a practical approach for the diagnosis and treatment of thoracic zygapophyseal joint pain and to present preliminary clinical data on the effects of this treatment approach on health-related quality of life. ⋯ Our results suggest that radiofrequency denervation of thoracic zygapophyseal joint pain is as effective as radiofrequency denervation, the standard treatment, for lumbar and cervical zygapophyseal joint pain. If these results can be confirmed by other centers, radiofrequency denervation is likely to become more widely available for the treatment of thoracic zygapophyseal joint pain.