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December 21, 2021

In late 1975, a group of Yale scientists traveled to Lyme, Connecticut to investigate what they thought was an outbreak ...

December 6, 2021

The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as an “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, ...

November 15, 2021

Pelvic neoplastic disease is a life-threatening condition [1]. It is associated with a high degree of pain, which may not ...

November 1, 2021

A relatively new diagnostic tool, electrodiagnostic testing is used to investigate the electrical activity of nerves and muscles, especially when ...

October 18, 2021

In the United States, 1 in 5 adults suffers from chronic pain [1]. Women, unemployed and impoverished adults, and rural ...

October 4, 2021

Dry needling is a promising therapeutic technique that has continued to gain popularity in the past few years. Now, there ...

September 20, 2021

PMMA, or polymethylmethacrylate, goes by a number of names, including acrylic, acrylic glass, Perspex, or plexiglass. It is both a ...

September 7, 2021

The management of pain poses a difficult and unique challenge. On one hand, some level of analgesia may be required ...

August 16, 2021

After a peripheral nerve is damaged, the nerve stump tries regenerating in the direction of its distal target [1]. When ...

August 2, 2021

Interventional pain management (IPM) is defined by the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians as the discipline of medicine devoted ...

July 19, 2021

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a minimally invasive procedure carried out to treat long-term, chronic pain that has failed to ...

July 6, 2021

One of the most common non-emergent medical complaints is back pain. Incapacity due to back pain constitutes an enormous healthcare ...