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| acetaminophen
Oral vs Intravenous Acetaminophen for Pain Relief—Does it Matter?
One consequence of the public health crisis of opioid abuse has been an increased interest in the practice of multimodal analgesia for...
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| addiction
Blocking the Negative Emotions of Pain
Working with rodent models, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis have demonstrated that receptors in the brain that trigger emotional responses to...
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| postsurgical pain management
Preoperative Communication: Promoting Best Practices in Pain Care
The demographics of joint replacement surgery in the US are changing, and researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and the Ochsner Clinic in New...
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| GABA
Adding Gabapentin to Opioid Therapy?
A small study conducted by researchers from the University of Illinois reports that adding gabapentin to opioids for the treatment of chronic pain delivered no...
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| physical therapy
Treatment for Amplified Pain Syndrome: Sending More Pain Signals
A story aired recently on the National Public Radio program Invisibilia explores a controversial treatment approach to a puzzling pediatric pain presentation that for the...
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| inflammatory bowel disease
A New Tool for IBD: Treatment-Resistant Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine report that they have isolated a possible new target for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including...
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