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Pain Control News
July 30, 2023

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Gene Therapy Treats Chronic Pain by Dialing Down Sodium

Scientists identified the region where a protein regulates sodium ion channels, inserting the channel's genetic material into a virus to alleviate pain in cell and animal ...

Researchers Use the Antidepressant Tianeptine to Manage Chronic Pain

Neuropathic pain is a debilitating condition estimated to affect as much as 10% of the global population. It results from a damaged or malfunctioning nervous system, stemming from diseases like diabetes, alcoholism, strokes, Parkinson's and other causes like spinal nerve compression, radiation and ...

Children's IQs Not Diminished by Concussion, Study Suggests

A new study finds concussions don't reduce the IQ of children. Findings may help to reduce parental fears regarding these common and concerning head injuries. Researchers looked at socioeconomic status, patient sex, severity of injuries, concussion history, and whether there was a loss of ...

People Generalize Expectations of Pain to Conceptually Related Tasks

Avoiding experiences associated with pain can be an adaptive behavior, but generalized avoidance can become problematic, even potentially culminating in ...
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Neuropathic Pain: The Underlying Mechanism and a Potential Therapeutic Target Are Revealed in Mice

Neuropathic pain -- abnormal hypersensitivity to stimuli -- is associated with impaired quality of life and is often poorly managed. Estimates suggest that 3 percent to 17 percent of adults suffer ...

Discovery Suggests Route to Safer Pain Medications

Scientists have identified a potential pathway to pain relief that neither triggers addiction nor causes ...

How Alcohol Consumption Contributes to Chronic Pain

A team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and ...

Study Shows Most Children Recover from Lyme Disease Within Six Months of Treatment

A majority of parents of children diagnosed with Lyme disease reported that their kids recovered within six months of completing antibiotic treatment, according to a new study. The findings, based on ...

Students Engineer Socks for on-the-Go Neuropathy Treatment

A wearable electrical-stimulation and vibration-therapy system designed by engineering students might be just what the doctor ordered for people experiencing foot pain and balance loss due to ...

纤维肌痛症: Pain out of Control

Feeling like we have a degree of control makes us tolerate pain better. In the case of fibromyalgia, however, this simply doesn't work. A study provides clues as to ...

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White-Tailed Deer Blood Kills Bacteria That Causes Lyme Disease

As tick season kicks in across the country, scientists have completed research that offers a promising lead in the fight against Lyme ...

Turn Up Your Favorite Song to Improve Medication Efficacy

While listening to a favorite song is a known mood booster, researchers have discovered that music-listening interventions also can make medicines more ...

Wearable Microscopes Advance Spinal Cord Imaging in Mice

Scientists have created wearable microscopes to enable unprecedented insight into the signaling patterns that occur within the spinal cords of mice. This technological advancement will help ...

Lone Star Tick Bites May Be to Blame for Unexplained Digestive Problems

New clinical guidance has been developed to help physicians and patients identify if unexplained digestive symptoms are due to alpha-gal syndrome, a food allergy that is caused by lone star tick ...

Preterm Babies Do Not Habituate to Repeated Pain

Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a new ...

New Test Quickly Identifies Patients Whose Postoperative Pain Can Be Effectively Treated by Hypnosis

Hypnosis is an effective treatment for pain for many individuals but determining which patients will benefit most can be challenging. Hypnotizability testing requires special training and in-person ...

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Potential New Therapeutic Target for Inflammatory Diseases Such as Lupus and Sepsis

Scientists have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and -- in doing so -- unearthed a potential new ...

Spinal Cord Stimulation Doesn't Help With Back Pain, Says New Review

People with chronic back pain may turn to spinal cord stimulation to ease their pain, but a Cochrane Review found no sustained benefits to the surgery that outweigh the costs and ...

Researchers Develop Blood Test for Anxiety

Researchers have successfully developed a blood test for anxiety. The test examines biomarkers that can help them objectively determine someone’s risk for developing anxiety, the severity of their ...

Fledgling Chronic Back Pain Therapy Needs More Rigorous Study

Cognitive Functional Therapy treats chronic back pain as part of a person's entire pain experience, but more research is needed to assess its ...

How Bacteria Invade the Brain

New research in mice shows bacteria hijack communication between nerve and immune cells in the meninges -- the protective layers that shield the brain from infection. The experiments detail step by ...

Study Identifies Four Distinct Pain Trajectories in Nursing Home Residents

Despite awareness that pain is common in nursing home residents, there has been minimal attention focused on how this pain changes over time. A new study presents compelling evidence of the existence ...

Being Flexible Is Key to Protecting Mental Wellbeing in People With Chronic Pain

Research has found the biggest threat to the mental health of people living with chronic pain isn't necessarily how intense their pain is, but the extent to which it interferes with their daily ...

One in Three Parents May Unnecessarily Give Children Fever-Reducing Medicine

Some parents may not be properly measuring or responding to elevated temperatures in children, a new national poll ...

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