CONTEXT Throwing-related arm injuries are common in softball pitchers and may lead to diminished health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Arm symptoms such as pain have been reported to be more common in healthy overhead athletes than nonoverhead athletes. Furthermore, more frequent shoulder symptoms and lower shoulder function have been demonstrated in athletes with self-reported history of sho...

Three strands of activity can be identified in the history of pain measurement. The first, psychophysics, dates back to the nineteenth century and measures the effect of analgesia by quantifying the noxious stimulation required to elicit pain, as well as the maximum stimulation tolerated. The second uses standardized questionnaires for patients, developed to categorize pain according to its emo...

Methods Patients seeking their initial treatment for chronic pain at one of the nine centers in an integrative medicine practice-based research network were eligible. Enrolled patients received a personalized integrative medicine intervention over the 24-week study period. In addition to the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), participants also completed the SF-12, PSS-4, CES-D 20 and various numerical...

BACKGROUND Intrathecal opioid administration has been used widely in patients suffering from severe cancer pain that is not managed with conventional modalities. However, the potential serious neurological complications from the procedure and the side effects of intrathecal opioids have made many clinicians reluctant to employ continuous intrathecal analgesia as a first-line therapeutic option ...

conclusions the use of absorbable tacks during tapp confers significant benefit regarding the operating time, however it is a disadvantage due to the cost when compared with fibrin glue. results the group of tacks ‘tapp’ showed good results concerning the level of pain, fatigue and foreign body sensation comparable with those of the historical group. there were significant differences concernin...

BACKGROUND In recent years, several published articles have demonstrated that quantitative sensory testing (QST) is useful in the analysis of musculoskeletal pain disorders. Based on the evidence from these studies, it is assumed that QST might be a useful tool in the analysis of the pathogenesis, classification, differential diagnosis, and prognosis of chronic musculoskeletal pain. OBJECTIVE...

Methods. Consecutive neck pain patients over the age of 18 were recruited from the outpatient clinic at the AECC at the time of their initial consultation. Patients were excluded if they had radiographic evidence of congenital anomalies, fracture/dislocation, inflammatory, infectious or other serious pathologies. Patients were asked to answer questions regarding demographics, history of injury/...