Managing pain in the elderly population: pearls and pitfalls.

abstract：:Animal-assisted therapy, including visits from certified therapy dogs, offer a valuable and often underutilized resource for addressing unmet needs in cancer patients. Prospective research studies have documented symptomatic benefits for reducing pain, psychological distress, and fatigue in a variety of patient popula...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Marcus DA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of menstruating women experience uncomfortable symptoms during the premenstrual phase of their menstrual cycles. Although many women do not require specific treatment of their symptoms, approximately 20% to 50% report moderate to severe premenstrual symptoms and about 5% meet the diagnostic criteria ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Shulman LP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile colic is a self-limiting disorder of excessive infant crying or fussiness that peaks at 6 weeks of age and typically improves by 3 months of age. The etiology of infantile colic has yet to be definitively elucidated, but there is increasing research to support its relationship to migraine. The aims of this r...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Qubty W,Gelfand AA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the current and investigational agents for use in the treatment of acute pain. The use of spinal and epidural routes also are discussed. ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Bowen G,Viscusi ER,Andonakakis A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of people experience tension-type headache during their lifetimes. Boys experience tension-type headache slightly more than girls during preadolescent years. During adolescence and adult years, tension-type headache occurs more commonly in females. Tension-type headache changes in women occur in rela...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Marcus DA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about specific changes of cognitive processing in cluster headache. Studies on event-related potentials (ERP) suggest that stimulus evaluation is impaired in chronic cluster headache and in episodic cluster headache during the cluster period, but not in the interval between two periods. Patients with c...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Evers S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decades investigators have used personality inventories to help explain the relationship between personality and pain experience. This article reviews empirical research, which has examined temperament and character features in chronic pain patients. Robert Cloninger's temperament and character model of pe...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Conrad R,Wegener I,Geiser F,Kleiman A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lumbar spine forms the foundation and infrastructure of an organic skyscraper equipped with the physiologic capacity to act as a crane for lifting and a crankshaft for walking. Subjected to aging like other "human machinery," the lumbar spine adapts to the wear and tear of gravity and biomechanical loading through...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Wheeler AH,Murrey DB

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this review is to provide a summary of the perioperative studies that have examined transdermal lidocaine (lidocaine patch) as an analgesic and put the evidence in context of the likely overall benefit of transdermal lidocaine in the perioperative period. RECENT FINDINGS:Several random...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Smoker J,Cohen A,Rasouli MR,Schwenk ES

更新日期：2019-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound plays a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of pain, with significant literature reaching back many years, especially with regard to diagnostic ultrasound and its use for guiding needle-based delivery of drugs. Advances in ultrasound over at least the last decade have opened up new areas of inqu...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Bobola MS,Chen L,Ezeokeke CK,Kuznetsova K,Lahti AC,Lou W,Myroniv AN,Schimek NW,Selby ML,Mourad PD

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Peripheral nerve blocks of the scalp, mainly greater occipital nerve blocks, have received a renewed interest amongst pediatric providers as they offer an alternate option to provide both acute and chronic relief from the suffering of children with difficult to treat headaches. This narrative review w...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Dubrovsky AS

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) are highly prevalent primary headaches that remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in clinical practice. The similarities and differences between migraine and TTH may impose diagnostic challenges as well as management difficulties. In addition, the possibility of migraine chron...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Peres MF,Gonçalves AL,Krymchantowski A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flurry of recent randomized, placebo-controlled trials assessing dissimilar pharmacotherapeutic treatment options for fibromyalgia (FM) have been presented in the past few years. This review evaluates these trials in light of recent pathophysiological concepts germane to FM, including mood disorders, autonomic dysre...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Holman AJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissection refers to a tear in the wall of an artery, with the two main types being intracranial or extracranial. Dissections tend to occur most commonly in the young, sometimes secondary to trauma involving the neck. To confirm a dissection, some type of vessel imaging is necessary, including magnetic resonance angio...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Sheikh HU

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the comorbidity of migraine has been extensively studied, the relationships between cluster headache and psychiatric disease have not been well-addressed. In this review the available literature concerning cluster headache and depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, aggression, suicide, and their implications ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Robbins MS

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last few years, attention has increasingly been focused on the evolution of cluster headache over time. Predictive factors have been identified that are correlated with an increased risk of unfavorable evolution from the episodic form to the chronic form of cluster headache. Late onset, the presence of sporad...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Torelli P,Manzoni GC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:The goals of this review are to evaluate recent studies regarding comorbidity between migraine and different metabolic and endocrine disorders and to discuss the role of insulin resistance as a common pathogenetic mechanism of these diseases. RECENT FINDINGS:Recently, several studies showed that ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Rainero I,Govone F,Gai A,Vacca A,Rubino E

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas most pain due to cancer can be relieved with relatively simple methods using oral analgesics, as suggested by WHO guidelines, some patients may have difficult pain situations that require more complex approaches. It is estimated that 10-20 % of cancer patients suffer from pain that is not easily relieved. Ther...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Mercadante S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric and adolescence headache is one of the most common causes of access in emergency departments (ED). Primary headache and headache secondary to self-limited conditions are the majority of cases. Secondary life-threatening headaches are less frequent and may be recognized by a careful history and physical exami...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Papetti L,Capuano A,Tarantino S,Vigevano F,Valeriani M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New imaging technology allows us to study neurologic disorders that have had no previous structural basis. There have been recent reports on the involvement of nociceptive pathways in daily headache. A systematic review was performed using key words "chronic daily headache" and "imaging." This paper reviews the litera...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Aurora SK

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is a complex disorder to which medical and psychological factors both contribute and react. While there are numerous chronic pain conditions, they share certain experiences. This review examines some of the psychological factors that are common to the pain experience and some of the psychologically-based ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Kaiser RS,Mooreville M,Kannan K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder with grave consequences for both the individual and society. This review will focus on recent literature investigating how brain structures implicated in reward and aversion contribute to the genesis of migraine pain. There exist many overlapping and interacting brain r...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Cahill CM,Cook C,Pickens S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a difficult outcome to measure due to its multifaceted and subjective nature. The need for selecting proper outcome measures is high because of the increasing demand for scientifically valid demonstrations of treatment efficacy. This article discusses some basic topics in the measurement of pain outcomes and a...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Younger J,McCue R,Mackey S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cluster headache was first described over 300 years ago, but in the last century our knowledge of the disorder has exploded through both clinical observation and epidemiological data. Although some of the data are conflicting and more need to be obtained, much is known about the disorder. This article reviews the data...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Broner SW,Cohen JM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of the present systematic review is to provide a current understanding of the mechanism of action and the evidence available to support clinical decision-making. The focus is to summarize randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and nonrandomized or observational studies of spinal cord stimulat...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Vallejo R,Gupta A,Cedeno DL,Vallejo A,Smith WJ,Thomas SM,Benyamin R,Kaye AD,Manchikanti L

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hematological disorder which leads to serious complications in multiple organ systems. While significant research has addressed many of the effects of acute pain episodes and end-organ damage connected to this disease, little has approached the chronic pain state associa...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Fiocchi J,Urits I,Orhurhu V,Orhurhu MS,Giacomazzi S,Hoyt B,Kaye AD,Kaye RJ,Viswanath O

更新日期：2020-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cervicogenic headache (CHA) is a secondary headache which has a source in the upper cervical spine. Many traditional analgesic choices lack good efficacy in managing the associated pain. As a result, in management of CHA, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) or pulse radiofrequency (PRF) has been tried with ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Grandhi RK,Kaye AD,Abd-Elsayed A

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE FOR REVIEW:Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a serious and life-threatening medical condition which commonly presents with an acute headache. Unfortunately, it remains frequently misdiagnosed at initial presentation with dire consequences in terms of patient morbidity and mortality. The goal of this paper is to review...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Ogunlaja OI,Cowan R

更新日期：2019-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Concussion is a significant issue in medicine and the media today. With growing interest on the long-term effects of sports participation, it is important to understand what occurs in the brain after an impact of any degree. While some of the basic pathophysiology has been elucidated, much is still unknown about what ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Choe MC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tension-type headache (TTH) is the most common type of headache in the general population, including individuals over the age of 65 years. Although the prevalence of migraine decreases markedly with age, TTH has a greater tendency to persist later in life. Less commonly, TTH can present for the first time after the ag...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Crystal SC,Grosberg BM

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00