Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Changes in Pain Self-Efficacy, Coping Skills and Fear Avoidance Beliefs in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga, Physical Therapy, and Education for Chronic Low Back Pain.
We evaluated exercise interventions for cognitive appraisal of chronic low back pain (cLBP) in an underserved population. ⋯ All three interventions were associated with improvements in self-efficacy and catastrophizing among low-income, racially diverse adults with cLBP.
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There is an unmet need for new, efficacious, well-tolerated, acute treatments for migraine in adolescents. Remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) is a novel, nonpharmacological treatment that provides significant symptom relief with good tolerability. The current post hoc analysis compared the efficacy of REN to that of standard-care medications for the acute treatment of migraine in adolescents. ⋯ Our results suggest that REN may have higher efficacy than certain standard-care medications for the acute treatment of migraine in adolescents. A larger-scale, blinded comparative-effectiveness and tolerability study is needed.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
The MOTION Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial with objective real-world outcomes for lumbar spinal stenosis patients treated with the mild® Procedure 1-Year results.
The purpose of this study is to provide Level-1 objective, real-world outcome data for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis suffering from neurogenic claudication secondary to hypertrophic ligamentum flavum. ⋯ One-year results of this Level-1 study demonstrated superiority of mild+CMM over CMM alone for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis who were suffering from neurogenic claudication secondary to hypertrophic ligamentum flavum. Use of the validated Walking Tolerance Test to objectively measure increased ability to walk without severe symptoms provided evidence of statistically significantly better outcomes for mild+CMM than for CMM alone. With no reported device or procedure-related adverse events, the long-standing safety profile of the mild Procedure was reaffirmed. mild is a safe, durable, minimally invasive procedure that has been shown to be effective as an early interventional therapy for patients suffering from symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis.
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Adherence to pain medication in patients with cancer is crucial for successful pain therapy. This review aimed to investigate the rate of adherence, which factors influence adherence, whether adherence differs in diverse patient populations, whether there are methods to improve adherence, and the relationship between adherence and pain relief. ⋯ Adherence of cancer patients to pain medication is suboptimal. Health care workers should focus on addressing barriers to increase adherence to obtain better pain relief.