Browse by Audience
The use of pain scales that refer to a past time period is thereby based on the assumption that patients accurately remember their ‘average’, ‘greatest’ and ‘least’ pain. The present […]
Learn More >Referred pain is a common but less understood symptom that originates from somatic tissues. A comprehensive recognition of referred pain is important for clinicians when dealing with it. The purpose […]
Learn More >There are no validated measures to assess chronic abdominal pain (AP) in clinical trials of children with disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBIs). Currently used AP measures are extrapolated from studies […]
Learn More >This research evaluates the feasibility of a multimodal pain assessment protocol during rehabilitation following spinal cord injury (SCI). The protocol amalgamates clinical workup (CW), quantitative sensory testing (QST), and psychosocial […]
Learn More >Interindividual variability in analgesic response is at least partly due to well-characterized polymorphisms that are associated with opioid dosing and adverse outcomes. The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) has put […]
Learn More >Migraine with aura (MwA) is a neurological condition manifested in moderate to severe headaches associated with transient visual and somatosensory symptoms, as well as higher cortical dysfunctions. Considering that about […]
Learn More >Chronic pain and cognitive impairment are prevalent geriatric syndromes in the population of older adults, and they are the main cause of disability in people over sixty-five years of age. […]
Learn More >
The human NTG model of migraine in drug discovery and development.
Various triggers can originate a migraine attack. In healthy volunteers and patients with migraine, the nitroglycerin (NTG) provocation model induces a headache that resembles migraine in pain characteristics and vascular […]
Learn More >