Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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1) Determine and compare prevalence for homicide-suicide (H-S) affirmation in community non-patients (N=478), community patients (N=158), acute pain patients (APPs; N=326), and chronic pain patients (CPPs; N=341); and 2) Develop H-S predictor models in APPs and CPPs. ⋯ The prevalence of H-S affirmation within APPs and CPPs is not insignificant. The APPs predictor model points to a close association between H-S affirmation and suicidality. The CPPs model indicates that there is a close association between H-S affirmation, and anger/hostility and anger directed at physicians. These results, however, should not lead to the belief that CPPs are at greater risk for actual H-S completion for the following reasons: 1) H-S is an extremely rare event; and 2) predictive validity of the H-S item for actual H-S completion has not been determined.
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The purpose is to define the origin of radiculopathy of patients with degenerative lumbar scoliosis-stenosis and to assess the correlation between percentage of initial radicular leg pain relief with selective nerve root injections and lateral canal dimensions. ⋯ In degenerative lumbar scoliotic curves, radicular symptoms are attributed mainly to nerve roots exiting from the concavity of the lumbosacral hemicurve. No evidence was found that the rate of initial relief from selective nerve root injections correlates with the degree of stenosis noted in the MRI.
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Two Australian public hospital multidisciplinary pain centers (MPCs) situated on opposite sides of the country. ⋯ System plasticity is as important to the process of integrated health care as it is to our understanding of the complexity of the lived experience of pain. Better-informed consumers partnered with responsive health professionals drive the proposed paradigm shift in service delivery. The changes better align the needs of consumers with the ability of health care providers to meet them, thus achieving the twin goals of patient empowerment and system efficiency.
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Develop a burn injury model in young age rats. ⋯ Our data suggest that this model may be used to explore the mechanisms of burn injury-induced nociception in young rats and to differentiate the sequelae from burn injury between adult and young rats under certain experimental conditions.
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Case report. ⋯ This case illustrates patient can present with an isolated symptom such as dizziness without headache after PDP. The patient received an EBP with complete resolution of her symptom of postdural dizziness.