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Chronic Pain| Fibromyalgia| Physical Function by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain An online survey to investigate predictors of high physical function in 2,580 people with fibromyalgia (FM) showed that s ignificant explanatory variables of high physical f ... Read on »

Back Pain| Alternative Medicine|eToims Differences by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain An article by Sherman KJ. Cherkin DC. Deyo RA, et al, discusses that patients frustrated with conventional care for back pain, turn increasingly to complementary and alternati ... Read on »

Back pain| Lifting |Handling by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain A study just published showed that advice and training on working techniques and lifting equipment does not prevent back pain in jobs that involve heavy lifting. The study ... Read on »

Back Pain| Neck Pain| Expenses by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain According to a study in the February 13 issue of JAMA, expenses related to back and neck problems have increased substantially in the last decade. However, outcomes such as ... 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 recove ... Read on »

Caffeine| Headaches by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, November 02, 2008 Caffeinedependence is a frequent cause of chronic daily headache. As little as 100 mg caffeine may be enough to cause the headache, i.e. the equivale ... Read on »

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome| Pain by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, September 27, 2008This week’s New York Times article on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome highlighted the importance of this clinical condition. This is an entrapment problem ... Read on »

Chronic Fatigue| Fibromyalgia| Pre-morbid Life-Styles by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Patients with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, whom I have treated seemed to have special common traits and a literature search showed the following findings:Generally consid ... Read on »

Chronic Low Back Pain| Anger| Muscle Tension by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain In a study on patients with chronic low back pain to determine whetheranger-in, anger-out, and hostility predicted symptom-specific muscle tension reactivity found that if ang ... Read on »

Chronic Pain | Complex regional pain syndromes by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Complexregionalpainsyndromes (CRPS, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia) are pain ful neuropathic disorders that develop after trauma affecting a limb with (I) or without ... Read on »

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

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, November 29, 2008 Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are a common co-morbidity in patients with a history of accident-related chronicpain and depressi ... Read on »

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

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, November 22, 2008 A chronic pain ful physical condition can be a major cause of sleep disturbances. This study included 18, 958 participants aged 15 years or older f ... 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 confirmed by stu ... 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 »

Chronic Pain| Drinking Problems by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, December 07, 2008The intersection of pain and alcohol misuse by older adults has not been studied. This study involved older community-residing adults (n = 401) classi ... Read on »

Chronic pain| Foot Hydrotherapy by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Saturday, April 26, 2008Alternate hot and coldhydrotherapyof the legs were given at ten 25-minute treatments during a three-week period to 20 patients with walking induced pa ... Read on »

Chronic Pain| Groin Muscles by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Friday, July 04, 2008 Hip stiffness in athletes is associated with later development of chronicgroininjury and as such may be a risk factor for this condition. "Sports hernia, ... 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 »

Coronary Disease| Muscle Pain|Heart Rate by Dr. Jennifer C. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Chronic Pain Sunday, November 09, 2008There is increasing evidence that increased heartrate may be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality both in patients wi ... Read on »

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