abstract：:Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a common chronic pain condition that is characterized by distinct "trigger points." Despite current treatments with physical therapy, analgesics, anti-depressants and trigger-point injections, myofascial pain remains a challenging chronic pain condition in clinical practice. Botulinum...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Zhou JY,Wang D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a major concern in oncology practice given the increasing number of cancer survivors and the lack of effective treatment. The incidence of peripheral neuropathy depends upon the anticancer drug used, but is commonly under-reported in clinical trials. Several animal ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Ferrier J,Pereira V,Busserolles J,Authier N,Balayssac D

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a debilitating chronic pain condition, which remains difficult to treat. The current mainstays of treatment include physical therapy, interventional procedures and medications. Among medications, ion channel blockers and gabapentinoids are the 2 classes of drugs commonly used to treat neuropathic p...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Chen L,Mao J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurostimulation techniques for the treatment of primary headache syndromes, particularly for chronic cluster headache (CCH), have received much interest in the recent years. Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) has yielded favourable clinical results, and is becoming a routine treatment for refractory chronic cluster he...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Wolter T,Kaube H

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:Tension-type headache is the most common headache disorder, affecting approximately 40 % of Americans within a one-year span. Although the most common form, episodic tension-type headache, is rarely impairing, more frequent tension-type headache can occur with significant disability and psychological comorbidity. Appr...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Rosen NL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low back pain is a common condition that is encountered by both primary care physicians as well as various specialists, which include: orthopedic surgeons, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, rheumatologists, and pain management specialists. Associated muscular pain is very common and often...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Ramsook RR,Malanga GA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperprolactinemia is a condition characterised by an increase of prolactin blood levels (more than 100-200 ng/ml). It is the most common endocrine disorder of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. The clinical characteristics of the headache-hyperprolactinemia-hypophyseal-adenoma association are discussed, the various dia...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Bussone G,Usai S,Moschiano F

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a widely accepted tool to investigate somatosensory changes in pain patients. Many different protocols have been developed in clinical pain research within recent years. In this review, we provide an overview of QST and tested neuroanatomical pathways, including peripheral and cen...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Pfau DB,Geber C,Birklein F,Treede RD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine and stroke are related in more than one way. Migraine with aura is a risk factor for ischemic stroke in women under age 45 years, particularly when combined with other risk factors such as smoking and oral contraceptives. Further, individuals with migraine with aura seem to have more white matter lesions and ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Laurell K,Lundström E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an important molecule in headache pathophysiology. NO regulates vascular tone and acts as a potent vasodilator, and thus participates in regulating blood flow. NO is also considered to play a role in processing sensory information and pain sensitization. In this article, we review the role of NO i...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Steinberg A,Nilsson Remahl AI

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual hormones influence complex brain function and pain perception. Many psychophysical studies attempted to establish pain perception changes across menstrual cycle in animal models and healthy women or those with chronic pain. General results are quite uncertain in regard to consistent menstrual-related fluctuatio...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： de Tommaso M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia syndrome, a chronic condition typically characterized by widespread pain, nonrestorative sleep, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and other somatic symptoms, negatively impacts physical and emotional function and reduces quality of life. Exercise is commonly recommended in the management of people with fibr...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Busch AJ,Webber SC,Brachaniec M,Bidonde J,Bello-Haas VD,Danyliw AD,Overend TJ,Richards RS,Sawant A,Schachter CL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain is one of the most commonly reported symptoms among sarcoidosis patients. Not only does it significantly affect quality of life, but it also is a source of frustration for both the patient and physician because the etiology for pain often is unknown. Although patients typically complain of neuropathic-typ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Tavee J,Culver D

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholic drinks are a migraine trigger in about one third of patients with migraine in retrospective studies on trigger factors. Many population studies show that patients with migraine consume alcohol in a smaller percentage than the general population. Moreover, research has shown a decreased prevalence of headache...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Panconesi A,Bartolozzi ML,Guidi L

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioids have become the unequivocal therapy of choice in treating many varieties of chronic pain. With the increased prescription of opioids, some unintended consequences have occurred. After prolonged opioid exposure, opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH), the paradoxical effect that opioid therapy may in fact enhance or...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Tompkins DA,Campbell CM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs), such as trigeminal distribution of pain, circadian/circannual rhythmicity, and ipsilateral cranial autonomic features, suggest a crucial role of the hypothalamus in the underlying pathophysiology of these primary headache disorders. Hypothalamic involv...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Holle D,Katsarava Z,Obermann M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While pain is a common symptom among older adults, it often is underdiagnosed and undertreated. Aging-related physiological changes, misperceptions about the use of pain medications by both patients and providers, and the lack of evidence-based clinical research on pain management in older adults are some of the reaso...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Chai E,Horton JR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tension type headache (TTH) is a primary headache disorder considered common in children and adolescents. It remains debatable whether TTH and migraine are separate biological entities. This review summarizes the most recent literature of TTH with regards to children and adolescents. Further studies of TTH are needed ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Monteith TS,Sprenger T

更新日期：2010-12-01 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：:The literature on migraine triggers is reviewed, including the most common triggers, interactions between triggers, the research evidence related to the capacity of self-reported triggers to precipitate headaches, and the neurobiologic pathways by which triggers induce migraine attacks. An argument is developed agains...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Martin PR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care professionals caring for neonates (birth to 28 days of life) and infants up to 1 year of age have a professional and ethical responsibility to provide safe and effective pain management during painful procedures. Despite 14 years of research reports highlighting that sick infants are exposed to large numbe...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Harrison D,Yamada J,Stevens B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addiction to opioid analgesics is an important and yet underinvestigated clinical issue, which has substantial implications in opioid therapy for chronic pain management. Problematic opioid use, including compulsive opioid seeking and addiction, arises in some fraction of opioid-treated chronic pain patients. The conn...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Carinci AJ,Mao J

更新日期：2010-02-01 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

abstract：:The association of traumatic exposures with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions is well known. Patients with chronic pain, particularly headache disorders and fibromyalgia (FM), associated with psychological traumas need a special management strategy. Diagnosis of headache disorders...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Peres JF,Gonçalves AL,Peres MF

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain can be a significant problem for the patient with advanced cancer, particularly if bone metastases are present. Radiation therapy is efficacious and has been a mainstay in the treatment of pain from bone metastases. In the past decade, radiosurgery has developed into a successful adjunct treatment for these patie...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Haley M,Gerszten PC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain remains a serious medical problem because of patient morbidity and the absence of effective therapeutic interventions. Recent evidence suggests that this type of pain may be particularly difficult to manage because underlying mechanisms are influenced by a variety of factors, including type of injury,...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Harriott AM,Gold MS

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：: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：: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：:Hormonal and nonhormonal factors play a role in the pathophysiology of menstrual migraine, but estrogen withdrawal appears to be the most potent of these factors. It is postulated that estrogen withdrawal directly enhances excitability of trigeminal afferents, modulates the synthesis of neuropeptides, activates/deacti...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Martin VT

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trigger points play a part in the development and maintenance of chronic headache states. This article reviews the physiology of trigger points, with a focus on the -latest understanding of their biochemistry. The importance of facial muscle and extraocular muscle trigger points is only beginning to be understood; the...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： McMurray CA,Bajwa ZH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer pain is highly prevalent and often severe. Fortunately, most cancer pain can be readily managed, with up to 90% of patients responding well to standard interventions. However, breakthrough cancer pain-brief flares of severe pain superimposed on baseline pain-is common, difficult to manage, and often negatively ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Hagen NA,Biondo P,Stiles C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychostimulant drug in the world. With intermittent exposures, caffeine may act as a mild analgesic for headache or as an adjuvant for the actions of other analgesics. Chronic repetitive exposures to caffeine increase the risks for development of analgesic-overuse headache, chroni...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Shapiro RE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight gain is a common side effect of drugs used for headache prevention. Weight gain can adversely affect patient health, exacerbate comorbid metabolic disorders, and encourage noncompliance. Additionally, obesity may promote the chronification of episodic migraine. Few studies have looked specifically at the effect...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Young WB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empathy is a provider attribute that has been a topic of increased clinical interest, particularly as it relates to pain. This article examines various dimensions of the pain and empathy literature: definitions of empathy, research regarding the psychophysiology of empathy for pain, and research related to empathy in ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Tait RC

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation has been used since ancient times to treat painful conditions. Electrotherapy for pain was largely consigned to the realm of quackery until the introduction of the Gate Control Theory by Melzack and Wall in 1965 provided a rationale for direct stimulation of peripheral nerves. Since that time, p...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Henderson JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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