Chronic pain affects a significant portion of the U.S. population, with recent data estimating more than 1 in 5 American adults experiences chronic pain. Chronic pain is commonly defined as pain persisting beyond normal tissue healing time and is typically
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Technically,chronic pain is diagnosed if it persists three to six months or moreafter an injury or disease heals. Sometimes there is a clear cause of the pain—such as arthritis—but other times there isn’t a specific trigger or underlying illness or
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Since all of this began in May 2020, I've had a rib removed; a neck and chest muscle cut out; and more injections, doctors appointments, and days in bed than I would care to admit. And yet, the prospect that terrified me the most wasn't a looming procedure or
2024-04-10
Background: Although multiple measures of the causes and consequences of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) are available and can inform pain management, no quantitative summary of these measures can describe the meaning of pain for a patient. The lived
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Physical Therapy in Emergency Care: Research on the Value of Physical Therapy Physical Therapy in the Emergency Department Physical Therapy in Emergency Care: Research on the Value of Physical Therapy While physical therapist services in emergency care have
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Photography by Sam Murphy and Kevin Mohatt for Nature The science is building and viable treatments are available. But millions of people with chronic pain are still without help. This article is also available as a pdf version . Philip Kass spends 90% of his
2024-02-24
Schematic diagram of obstacles impeding the translation of promising preclinical efficacy data to successful clinical trials in patients suffering from various chronic pain conditions. 2.1. Analgesic drug target—which to choose? According to the mouse pain
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They are treating low back pain with x-rays, scans (MRI and CT), surgery, and painkillers, which are now discouraged for treating low back pain. Patients are being let down by the treatment they are offered, and the overreliance on x-rays, scans, surgery and
2022-07-19
Chronic pain has a way of slowly taking over your life. You eventually reach the point where everything revolves around your pain and I do mean everything. Over the years I have tried a fair amount of different hobbies. All in search of something that clicks
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