Psychophysical changes after total sleep deprivation and experimental muscle pain
Summary Sleep disturbances exacerbate chronic pain, increase psychological load, and increase inflammation. Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) mimics aspects of chronic pain, predominantly affecting peripheral pain mechanisms, while experimental sleep provocations have been shown to impact central pain mechanisms.
Emma Hertel +5 more
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Impact of Central Sensitization and Pain Catastrophizing on Patient-Reported Outcomes Differs Between Unicompartmental and Total Knee Arthroplasties. [PDF]
Kawaguchi K +7 more
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Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
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Psychometric Properties of Pain Catastrophizing Scale in Patients with Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis of Thumb-Item Response Theory Analysis. [PDF]
Suomela S +3 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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Structure, Reliability, and Validity of the Bengali Version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale in Musculoskeletal Chronic Pain Patients in India. [PDF]
Ghoshal S, Dasgupta SR, Paul S, Dutta A.
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Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice
Abstract Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies.
Luisa Enria
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