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Introduction:
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common chronic pain conditions in pain practice.
Objectives:
In the current study, we describe phenotypes of patients with CLBP based on the status of their endogenous pain modulatory system.
Methods:
Conditioned pain modulation (a measure of central pain inhibition), temporal summa...
Background
Tapentadol is a centrally acting analgesic with μ‐agonistic activity combined with noradrenaline reuptake inhibition. Its mechanism of action relies on improvement of descending pain inhibition. In the current study, tapentadol's ability to enhance conditioned pain modulation (CPM, an experimental measure of descending pain inhibition) w...
In this experimental randomized placebo-controlled 4-way crossover trial, we explored the analgesic effects of inhaled pharmaceutical-grade cannabis in 20 chronic pain patients with fibromyalgia. We tested 4 different cannabis varieties with exact knowledge on their [INCREMENT]-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) content: Bedrocan (22....
Achieving successful treatment of postoperative pain remains a challenge. Recently, a sufentanil sublingual tablet system has been developed for treatment of moderate-to-severe postoperative pain. The phenylpiperidine sufentanil is a potent analgesic that rapidly crosses the blood–brain barrier and selectively activates central μ-opioid receptors....
The efficacy of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine as an analgesic agent is still under debate, especially for indications such as chronic pain. To understand the efficacy of ketamine for relief of pain, we performed a literature search for relevant narrative and systematic reviews and meta-analyses. We retrieved 189 unique artic...
Purpose of review:
In this review, we assess the benefit of ketamine in the treatment of terminal cancer pain that is refractory to opioid treatment and/or complicated by neuropathy.
Recent findings:
While randomized controlled trials consistently show lack of clinical efficacy of ketamine in treating cancer pain, a large number of open-label st...
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an ice-lolly on acute postoperative pain.
DESIGN Randomised prospective intervention study.
METHOD A total of 100 patients scheduled for an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy were recruited to participate in the study. Patients
were randomised to receive either an ice-lolly or no treatment after arrival at...
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Collagenous sprue (CS) is a rare form of small bowel enteropathy characterised by a thickened basement membrane and is, in most of the literature, reported as part of coeliac disease. Multiple treatment strategies are suggested in CS, but there is no standardised therapy. The aim of this series is to describe 4 cases of CS and to propos...
