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Although endometriosis is the most common condition identified among women with dysmenorrhea and chronic pelvic pain, its evaluation and management presents many challenges to practicing clinicians. Dr. As-Sanie emphasizes diagnostic and treatment strategies for the primary care clinician.
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Statistics have shown, in no uncertain terms, the aging of the American population. With this increase in the elderly population comes a substantial rise in the number of patients living in pain. Due to the aging population plus the widespread opioid epidemic, practitioners need to explore viable...
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Intensifying government scrutiny suggests that prescribers pay close attention to licensing board, payer and professional society guidance on ordering and using drug tests when treatment involves opioid therapy. Attorney Bolen sketches the changing regulatory landscape and how prescribers should...
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Migraine is among the most disabling disorders in the world, and much of the treatment armamentarium to date comes with significant unwanted effects. But new advances in our understanding of neurotransmitters and sensory processing may have led us to the dawn of a new and better era of migraine...
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Healthcare providers often encounter aberrant behaviors from patients who are prescribed controlled substances. Pain practitioner Jeremy Adler outlines how forming a differential diagnosis of these, drawing on a consistent plan of action, and communicating with patients can contribute to more...
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Although endometriosis is the most common condition identified among women with dysmenorrhea and chronic pelvic pain, its evaluation and management presents many challenges to practicing clinicians. Dr. As-Sanie provides a definition and a deeper look into endometriosis, and how to recognize it.
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Michigan OPEN—the Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network—was founded to develop a preventive approach to the opioid epidemic in the state through a focus on reducing acute care prescribing (surgery, dentistry, emergency medicine, and trauma). Addressing opioid prescribing during the acute care period...
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Overdose risk and reality has prompted many recent legal regulatory changes in controlled substance prescribing and pain management. Often, prescribers are the last to learn of an overdose event and worse, fail to take action once notified. Attorney Bolen outlines how the prescriber can proactively...
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A litany of unintended consequences has attended the introduction of prescribing guidelines aimed at curbing opioid use. In this segment, Drs. Barkin and Jay outline some of these, review aspects of the development process that may have contributed, and discuss some potential solutions and what it...
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Battlefield acupuncture was developed as a standardized protocol to provide a simple and easy to apply nonpharmaceutical solution in military clinical and battlefield settings. Kelley Armstrong details the approach and discusses the evidence supporting its use for pain management and stress...