Does conservative treatment change the brain in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain? : a systematic review [PDF]
Background: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is characterized by maladaptive central neuroplastic changes. Many observational studies have demonstrated that chronic pain states are associated with brain alterations regarding structure and/or function ...
Cagnie, Barbara +7 more
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Veteran spinal cord injury: An investigation of the mediating role of pain interference on the relationship between pain and emotional distress. [PDF]
Veteran Spinal Cord Injury: An Investigation of the Mediating Role of Pain Interference on the Relationship between Pain and Emotional Distress Carly Blaine, Dept. of Psychology, Jack Watson, and Richard Henry, Dept.
Blaine, Carly +2 more
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Embedded motivational interviewing combined with a smartphone app to increase physical activity in people with sub-acute low back pain: study protocol of a cluster randomised control trial [PDF]
Background: Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based, client-centred counselling technique that has been used effectively to increase physical activity, including for people with low back pain.
Breckon, Jeff +6 more
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RNA profiling of circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) from blood samples of men undergoing prostate biopsy identifies transcripts associated with clinically significant prostate cancer. Integrative analysis with public tumor datasets links EV‐derived gene signatures to tumor stage and progression‐free survival, highlighting CASP3, XRCC2, and RIT1 ...
Stefan Werner +14 more
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A prospective comparative study was undertaken to compare the patients′ pain experience, surgical outcome and surgeon′s experience in phacoemulsification and manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) under topical anesthesia ...
Gupta Sanjiv, Kumar Ajai, Agarwal Swati
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Predictive factors for sleep apnoea in patients on opioids for chronic pain
Background The risk of death is elevated in patients taking opioids for chronic non-cancer pain. Respiratory depression is the main cause of death due to opioids and sleep apnoea is an important associated risk factor.Methods In chronic pain clinics, we ...
Jean Wong +20 more
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PTSD and Pain: Exploring the Impact of Posttraumatic Cognitions in Veterans Seeking Treatment for PTSD [PDF]
Objective Previous research has demonstrated a significant relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) and pain. While several models attempt to explain this relationship, significant questions remain regarding factors that may play a ...
Mayer, Rebecca +3 more
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Screening and epitope characterization of Nidogen‐2‐specific nanobodies
Camel immunization and phage display were employed to generate high‐affinity VHH nanobodies against Nidogen‐2. After library construction, biopanning, ELISA screening, sequencing, and recombinant expression, selected nanobodies were purified and characterized, leading to the preliminary exploration of a nanobody‐based sandwich ELISA for specific ...
Jianchuan Wen +9 more
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Background Incident reporting systems (IRS) can improve care quality and patient safety, yet their impact is limited by clinician engagement. Our objective was to assess barriers to reporting in a hospital-wide IRS and use data to inform ongoing ...
Cati Brown-Johnson +8 more
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An interdisciplinary clinical practice model for the management of low-back pain in primary care: the CLIP project [PDF]
Background Low-back pain is responsible for significant disability and costs in industrialized countries. Only a minority of subjects suffering from low-back pain will develop persistent disability.
Stéphane Poitras +87 more
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