Acute pain can cause significant distress leading to morbidity and mortality Healthcare providers must remain steadfast in the goal of ensuring patient comfort and positive outcomes. Previous methods aimed at easing acute pain have been successful …
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Alan D. Kaye, Driskell R. Greene, Catherine Nguyen, Amanda Ragland, Mason P. Granger, William Peyton Wilhite, Kylie Dufrene, Sahar Shekoohi, Christopher L. Robinson
18.05.2024 | Chronic Daily Headache (S-J Wang and S-P Chen, Section Editors)
Migraine is a common condition that affects individuals in the productive age group of 15–49 years and causes the greatest number of years lived with a disability in this age group [ 1 ]. Management of migraine consists of acute treatment to …
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Woo-Seok Ha, Min Kyung Chu
07.05.2024 | New and Emerging Therapies in Interventional Pain Medicine (J Hasoon, Section Editor)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when external mechanical forces cause damage to the brain and lead to temporary or permanent impairment. Symptoms can include physical, emotional, cognitive, and sleep problems, for example, headache …
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Olivia Kingsford, Mustafa Yehya, Glynnis Zieman, Kerry L. Knievel
Open Access
07.05.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Migraine is the second leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than one billion people [ 1 ]. Chronic migraine (CM), defined as migraine occurring for ≥ 15 days for at least three consecutive months, with symptoms of migraine …
Lacrimal neuralgia was first reported by Juan A. Pareja and María-Luz Cuadrado from Madrid, Spain [ 1 ] in 2013 in two patients who experienced pain in the area next to the lateral canthus. As with other pericranial neuralgias, patients with …
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Wei Lin, Jr-Wei Wu, Jennifer I. Stern, Carrie E. Robertson, Chia-Chun Chiang
Open Access
23.04.2024 | Neuropathic Pain (A Abd-Elsayed, Section Editor)
Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) refer to a wide range of musculoarticular clinical conditions related to the stomatognathic apparatus [ 1 , 2 ]. The main related symptoms are muscle or joint pain during function, headache, preauricular pain …
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Maria Marcelly Lúcio Mota, Igor Hudson Albuquerque e Aguiar, Anderson Silva de Lima, Olavo Barbosa de Oliveira Neto, Pâmela Lopes Pedro da Silva, Eduarda Correia Moretti, George Azevedo Lemos
20.04.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Numerous methods exist for delivering analgesia or pain relief, encompassing both pharmacological agents and interventional techniques. Recent advancements include peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), an FDA-cleared, non-opioid pain management …
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Alan D. Kaye, Taylor R. Plaisance, Summer A. Smith, Amanda R. Ragland, Michael J. Alfred, Catherine G. Nguyen, Azem A. Chami, Saurabh Kataria, Kylie Dufrene, Sahar Shekoohi, Christopher L. Robinson
Open Access
18.04.2024 | Alternative Treatments for Pain Medicine (C Robinson, Section Editor)
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease that results from wear and tear and progressive loss of articular cartilage [ 1 ]. This condition causes chronic pain and locomotor disability, leading to significant impact on mobility …
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He Chen, Hangyu Shi, Shuai Gao, Jiufei Fang, Jiamin Yi, Wenhui Wu, Xinkun Liu, Zhishun Liu
Over the past three decades, research has established a link between migraine and vestibular symptoms beyond coincidence. As a distinct clinical entity, vestibular migraine is now considered as one of the most common causes of migraine-associated …
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Tzu-Chou Huang, Qadeer Arshad, Amir Kheradmand
13.04.2024 | Non-pharmacologic Aspects of Pain, Migraine, and Headache (D Buse, Section Editor)
Therapeutic pain education is advised within the multimodal physiotherapy management of migraine [ 1 , 2 •]. Including such education has already proven to be beneficial to decrease the frequency of migraine attacks [ 2 •]. A higher headache …
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Sarah Mingels, Marita Granitzer, Kerstin Luedtke, Wim Dankaerts
12.04.2024 | Chronic Pain Medicine (O Viswanath, Section Editor)
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a minimally invasive technique used to manage chronic pain, including conditions such as failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), complex regional pain syndrome I & II, and diabetic neuropathy [ 1 ]. Various theories …
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Ahish Chitneni, Esha Jain, Sidharth Sahni, Philippe Mavrocordatos, Alaa Abd-Elsayed
Open Access
12.04.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Acute pain is a common symptom of a wide variety of triggering conditions, and the primary reason most patients access healthcare systems [ 1 •]. From the pain perspective, tension-type headache is the primary cause of morbidity, followed by …
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Mihai O. Botea, Lukas Andereggen, Richard D. Urman, Markus M. Luedi, Carolina S. Romero
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage [ 1 ]. Acute pain, serving as a physiological …
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Sacha Moreau, Alexandra Thérond, Ivo H. Cerda, Kachina Studer, Alicia Pan, Jacob Tharpe, Jason E. Crowther, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Chris Gilligan, Reda Tolba, Sait Ashina, Michael E. Schatman, Alan D. Kaye, R. Jason Yong, Christopher L. Robinson
06.04.2024 | Childhood and Adolescent Headache (S Evers, Section Editor)
Pediatric migraine is a common neurological condition with evidence of an increasing burden over the last several years [ 1 – 5 ]. An estimated 11% of children have migraine headaches. The prevalence increases with age, peaking at up to 25% for …
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Jessica Hauser Chatterjee, Heidi K. Blume
Open Access
04.04.2024 | Uncommon and/or Unusual Headaches and Syndromes (F Cohen, Section Editor)
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a type of secondary headache disorder characterized by increased intracranial pressure; as the name implies, the precise etiology of the increased pressure in IIH is unknown. “The International …
The neuropsychological effects of opioid dependence and abuse as well as physical consequences have been extensively studied by researchers in a multitude of medical professions including psychiatry, neurology, addiction medicine, and …
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Alan D. Kaye, Kylie Dufrene, Jada Cooley, Madeline Walker, Shivam Shah, Alex Hollander, Sahar Shekoohi, Christopher L. Robinson
01.04.2024 | Neuropathic Pain (A Abd-Elsayed, Section Editor)
Diabetic neuropathy is a complication of diabetes mellitus that results from the metabolic and vascular disturbances associated with diabetes. It has been shown that up to 50–66% of all diabetic patients develop some sort of diabetic neuropathy …
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Natalie Strand, Meredith A. Anderson, Sumedha Attanti, Benjamin Gill, Christopher Wie, Azizat Dawodu, Robert Pagan-Rosado, Monica W. Harbell, Jillian A. Maloney
