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Work factors| Muscle Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, May 23, 2009 This study determined the influence of short term exposure to mechanical factors on regional musculoskeletal pain on full time newly employed workers (1 ... Read on »

Interventional|Non-Interventional treatments|Low back pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, May 16, 2009 These are the recommendations from the American Pain Society based on a systematic review that focused on evidence from randomized controlled trials on ... Read on »

Obesity | Chronic Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, May 09, 2009 This study evaluated obesity as a marker for increased pain severity, disability, and psychologic distress in treatment-seeking, mixed chronicpain patie ... Read on »

Chronic pain| Constipation by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Monday, May 04, 2009 This multinational, Internet-based survey was designed to assess the prevalence, frequency, severity, and impact of opioid-induced bowel dysfunction in pa ... Read on »

Pain | Depression| Alzheimer’s disease by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Friday, April 24, 2009 Brain areas that are involved in cognition and mood also play a role in pain processing. This present study examined the relationship between chronic p ... Read on »

Skin circulation| Muscle Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain April 19, 2009Many patients with chronic pain complain of coolness of their skin and here is the scientific basis for these complaints which involve skin circulation. This stu ... Read on »

Headaches| Hot weather| Air Pollution by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, April 12, 2009 A recent research shows that hot weather can give you a headache. On the other hand, air pollution appeared to have no effect on headache in a large, lo ... Read on »

Sleep apnea | Exercise by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, April 04, 2009 Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common disease characterized by repetitive partial or complete closure of the upper airway during sleep. ... Read on »

Basketball| Competition by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, March 29, 2009 To evaluate the effectiveness of recovery strategies on physical performance during a 3-day tournament style basketball competition, 29 male players (me ... Read on »

Bell’s palsy| late recovery phenonmenon by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, March 21, 2009 Bell's palsy is an idiopathic neuropathy of cranial nerve VII, and the incidence ranges from 15 to 40 per 100,000. The majority of patients re ... Read on »

Golf backswing | Low back| Shoulder Injuries by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain March 13, 2009 Full recoil golf swings have been implicated in back pain and injury in golfers. Evidence suggests that a restricted backswing may reduce the potential for inju ... Read on »

Trigger points| Tennis elbow by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, March 08, 2009 This study investigated the presence of active and latent muscle trigger points (TrPs) in the forearm musculature on both affected and unaffected sides ... Read on »

Ulnar Nerve Symptoms| Cubital Tunnel Region by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, February 28, 2009 It is well known that cubital tunnel syndrome frequently occurs in throwing athletes. The cause of cubital tunnel syndrome is considered to be mech ... Read on »

Repetitive Stress Injury| Hand Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, February 22, 2009 This study established normative values of the kinematics of the fingers and hands during computer keyboard use by studying the angles, angular velo ... Read on »

Hand Pain| Osteoarthritis by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain February 15, 2009 This study performed upper-extremity physical examinations on a sample of United States adults age 60+ yrs. Data for demographics, pain history, analgesic us ... Read on »

Teeth| Jaw| Neck Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, February 07, 2009 Patients complaining of pain in tooth bearing regions of the oral cavity may be suffering from a disorder unrelated to pulpal pathology.Unnecessary ... Read on »

Chronic Pain| Neuropathic features by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, January 31, 2009 A large nationwide postal survey was performed to estimate the prevalence of chronicpain with or without neuropathic characteristics in the French g ... Read on »

Chronic Pain| Cognition| Depression by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, January 25, 2009 Patients with fibromyalgia frequently complain of cognitive problems or " fibrofog." The existence of these symptoms has been confirme ... Read on »

Trapezius Pain| Specific Strength Training by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, January 17, 2009 The prevalence of neck muscle pain has steadily increased and especially pain from the descending part of the trapezius muscle has been associated w ... Read on »

Whiplash| Muscle Fatigue by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, January 10, 2009 This study examinedif patients with whiplash injury show identifiable increases in neck muscle fatigability and associated increase in postural body ... Read on »

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