Pain physician
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Symptomatic headaches attributed to unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations (ubAVMs) are very common and affect patients' quality life, but multidisciplinary care of ubAVMs to improve symptomatic headache remains unclear. ⋯ Occipital ubAVM is more likely to present with migraine-like headache, while frontotemporal ubAVM tends to present with tension-type-like headache. The effectiveness of multidisciplinary care for ubAVM to improve headache has been shown, but the natural history of ubAVM patients with headache remains unclear.Key Words: Unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations, headache, headache improvement, natural history.
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Clinical Trial
Vitamin D Supplementation in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: An Open Label, Single Arm Clinical Trial.
Vitamin-D deficiency may possibly be related to chronic low back pain (CLBP). ⋯ Vitamin-D supplementation in deficient CLBP patients may lead to improvement in pain intensity and functional ability apart from normalization of the levels. Future controlled clinical trials are required to confirm the hypothesis.Key words: Vitamin D, deficiency, screening, low back pain, chronic, supplementation.