Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Observational Study
Combining Guided Intervention of Education and Relaxation (GIER) with Remote Electrical Neuromodulation (REN) in the Acute Treatment of Migraine.
Evidence indicates that combining behavioral treatments with pharmacological treatments for migraine prevention improves efficacy, but little is known about the outcomes of combining neuromodulation and behavioral interventions for acute treatment of migraine. Remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared nonpharmacological migraine treatment. The present study evaluated the clinical benefits of augmenting REN treatment with a specially tailored behavioral therapy consisting of Guided Intervention of Education and Relaxation (GIER) for the acute treatment of migraine. ⋯ The results suggest that combining the GIER behavioral intervention with REN treatment can improve the therapeutic efficacy beyond that of REN alone, in terms of both pain level and improvement of disability.
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To assess the potential relationship of demographic (age, gender, body mass index, height, weight), clinical (affected side, duration of symptoms, health-related quality of life), psychological (depressive levels), or neurophysiological (pressure pain sensitivity and number of trigger points) variables with foot function and pain intensity in patients with unilateral plantar heel pain (PHP). ⋯ This study found that demographic, clinical, psychological, and neurophysiological variables can mutually interact to affect function and pain intensity in patients with unilateral PHP. These findings could guide clinicians in the identification, prevention, and treatment of PHP risk factors.
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Review Meta Analysis
Acupuncture therapy as an Evidence-Based Nonpharmacologic Strategy for Comprehensive Acute Pain Care: the Academic Consortium Pain Task Force White Paper Update.
A crisis in pain management persists, as does the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths, addiction, and diversion. Pain medicine is meeting these challenges by returning to its origins: the Bonica model of multidisciplinary pain care. The 2018 Academic Consortium White Paper detailed the historical context and magnitude of the pain crisis and the evidence base for nonpharmacologic strategies. More than 50% of chronic opioid use begins in the acute pain care setting. Acupuncture may be able to reduce this risk. ⋯ The majority of reviews found acupuncture therapy to be an efficacious strategy for acute pain, with potential to avoid or reduce opioid reliance. Future multicenter trials are needed to clarify the dosage and generalizability of acupuncture for acute pain in the emergency department. With an extremely low risk profile, acupuncture therapy is an important strategy in comprehensive acute pain care.
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Several factors such as neck pain intensity, disability, anxiety, depression, female sex, or a previous history of headache are associated with post-whiplash headache. However, the possible role of psychosocial factors contributing to the presence of headache or worsening of headache after a whiplash trauma remains unclear. To address this gap in knowledge, there is the need to assess psychosocial factors concerning headache shortly after a whiplash injury. ⋯ The level of neck pain intensity and disability, kinesiophobia, catastrophizing, and anxiety were all greater in people with acute WAD who presented with a headache compared to those without headache.
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The objective of this study is to document pain scores during withdrawal of abortive medication in patients diagnosed with medication overuse headache. ⋯ Our findings suggest that medication overuse headache will improve in the majority of pediatric patients who abruptly stop the offending medication(s) in an average of 8 days from withdrawal. Average pain intensity was reduced by more than one point among all patients who stopped taking abortive medications. Further larger-scale studies on medication withdrawal in pediatric patients with medication overuse headache could help us better understand whether this management strategy is effective.