Pain Management News

SAN DIEGO — Improving depressive symptoms can reduce patients’ chronic pain, according to a presenter at the 2024 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology West.

Long-term use of skeletal muscle relaxants may be beneficial only for the treatment of a narrow subset of chronic pain conditions, according to the findings of a systematic review published in JAMA Network Open.

Medical marijuana use led to improvements in health-related quality of life among adults referred for medical marijuana by a physician to treat qualifying medical conditions, according to a study published in Journal of Cannabis Research.

ORLANDO — The AAP on Monday released its first clinical guidance for prescribing opioids to children, which supports prescribing opioids when necessary and safe — although not as monotherapy and not without also providing naloxone.

There have been several exciting innovations in pain management that primary care providers should know about, according to a speaker at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference.

Youth with chronic pain experience anxiety and depression symptoms more often and more intensely than their peers without chronic pain, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

During a presentation at the Osteopathic Medical Education Conference, Janice Blumer, DO, FAAO, a professor and research mentor at Western University of Health Sciences, discussed managing neck pain in clinical settings and the available treatment options.

Older Black and Asian patients received significantly lower doses of opioids following hip fracture hospitalization compared with white patients, a retrospective analysis of Medicare beneficiaries showed.

Excessive abdominal fat was tied to chronic pain across multiple sites, particularly in women, an analysis published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine showed.