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Category Archives: Pain
Pain conditions among veterans with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
A study published in General Hospital Psychiatry evaluated the rates of chronic, noncancer pain conditions in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) System. Researchers used a cross-sectional design that used administrative data extracted … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Pain, Pain, Schizophrenia
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Helps Treat Diabetic Neuropathies
Research published this month in the Journal Pain found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help relieve pain for people with painful diabetic neuropathies. This was a randomized, treatment as usual (TAU), controlled, non-blinded intervention pilot study with a 4-month … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic Pain, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, Pain
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Chronic pain medicines should come with behavioral pacts
A great deal of research suggests that physicians are not good at predicting who will misuse pain medication. AMA MedNews [More...]
Posted in Addiction, Chronic Pain, News, Pain
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An Empathetic Doctor Can Increase A Patient’s Pain Tolerance
Clinicians are taught as part of their medical training that the therapeutic relationship is an important component of treatment and that reassurance, empathy and compassionate care are valuable elements in improving medical outcomes. A recent study published in the journal … Continue reading
Posted in Pain, Patient-centered interview, Quality health, Therapeutic relationship
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Pain Week
PAINWeek is the nation’s largest pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management. Over 1500 physicians, nursing professionals, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, and psychologists attended this year. Courses offering over 100 hours of continuing medical education were … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic Pain, Pain, Treatment
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Therapy in Virtual Environments: Are the Rights and Responsibilities the Same as in the Real World?
There has been a steady increase in the use of therapy for psychological disorders in virtual environments (VE) and using computer-assisted treatment over the last decade. Do the same guidelines and ethical standards apply as they do in the in-person … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety Disorders, Cognition, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Diagnosis, Guideline, Internet, Mental health, Pain, Phobia, Practice guideline, Psychological interventions, PTSD, Technology, Treatment, Virtual Environments
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FDA Approves REMS for Extended-Release, Long-Acting Opioids
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) opioid analgesics in the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain. The centerpiece of the plan is … Continue reading
Brain Regions Involved in Transition From Acute to Chronic Pain
Neuroscience researchers have been searching for years using imaging studies to find changes in brain structure and function that correlate with persistent pain. A recent study in Nature Neuroscience studied patients (n=40) with subacute back pain (SBP) lasting 4–16 weeks, … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Scan, Imaging, Pain, Radiology
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Distraction Can Reduce Pain
According to a report published in Current Biology, reduced pain perception while being distracted from pain is an everyday example of how cognitive processes can interfere with pain perception. Researchers from the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, using high-resolution spinal … Continue reading
Cognitive Behavior Therapy & Exercise for Chronic Widespread Pain
A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine evaluated the clinical impact of telephone-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (TCBT), exercise, or a combined intervention in primary care patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP). 442 patients with CWP (American College of … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Pain
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