Substance P aggravates ligature-induced periodontitis in mice
Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Periodontitis is one of the most common oral diseases in humans, affecting over 40% of adult Americans. Pain-sensing nerves, or nociceptors, sense local environmental changes and often contain neuropeptides. Recent studies have suggested that nociceptors
Yasir Dilshad Siddiqui +8 more
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Technology for Chronic Pain [PDF]
Current Biology, 2014 Technology developed for chronic pain management has been fast evolving and offers new stand-alone prospects for the diagnosis and treatment of pain, rather than simply addressing the limitations of pharmacology-based approaches. There are two central challenges to be tackled: developing objective measures that capture the subjectivity of pain ...
Ben Seymour, Suyi Zhang
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Prevalence of chronic pain in Libya before and after the uprising of 17 February 2011. [PDF]
, 2013 Two questionnaires were translated into Arabic and culturally adapted to measure chronic pain and neuropathic pain in the general population in Derna, Libya (1, 2), and then in a country-wide survey.
Tashani, OA
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Exercise challenge alters Default Mode Network dynamics in Gulf War Illness
BMC Neuroscience, 2019 Background Gulf War Illness (GWI) affects 30% of veterans from the 1991 Gulf War and has no known cause. Everyday symptoms include pain, fatigue, migraines, and dyscognition. A striking syndromic feature is post-exertional malaise (PEM).
Rakib U. Rayhan +6 more
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Prevalence of Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Adults — United States, 2016
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2018 Chronic pain, one of the most common reasons adults seek medical care (1), has been linked to restrictions in mobility and daily activities (2,3), dependence on opioids (4), anxiety and depression (2), and poor perceived health or reduced quality of life
James M. Dahlhamer +9 more
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Cellular circuits in the brain and their modulation in acute and chronic pain.
Physiological Reviews, 2020 Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating or reverting chronic pain has been that the nature of neural circuits underlying the diverse components of
R. Kuner, T. Kuner
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British pain clinic practitioners' recognition and use of the bio-psychosocial pain management model for patients when physical interventions are ineffective or inappropriate : results of a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2010 Background To explore how chronic musculoskeletal pain is managed in multidisciplinary pain clinics for patients for whom physical interventions are inappropriate or ineffective.
Anisur, Anisur +4 more
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Chronic regional pain and chronic pain syndromes [PDF]
Spinal Cord, 2005 This paper seeks to consider the validity and utility of two related terms in spinal and other injuries: complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and chronic pain syndrome (CPS). It is argued that the words chronic regional pain syndrome convey neither understanding of the condition nor of its mechanism. They simply redefine the clinical problem, but fail
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Cognitive-behavioral factors associated with sleep quality in chronic pain patients [PDF]
, 2010 People with chronic pain commonly complain of sleep disturbance. This study reports the characteristics of the pain and sleep of a large sample of patients with chronic pain (n = 160). This study compared subgroups of good sleepers with pain (n = 48) and
Ashworth, P.C.H. +2 more
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Prevalence and time course of post-stroke pain: A multicenter prospective hospital-based study [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVE: Pain prevalence data for patients at various stages after stroke. DESIGN: Repeated cross-sectional, observational epidemiological study. SETTING: Hospital-based multicenter study.
Barbanti, Piero +17 more
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