Pain
News
Abuse of Prescription Opioid Drugs Waning
Key clinical point: Abuse of prescription opioid drugs may be declining. Major finding: According to all five RADARS measures, opioid abuse...
Medicolegal Issues
Pain Out of Proportion to a Fracture
News
Nontraumatic Knee Pain: A Diagnostic & Treatment Guide
Little has been written about nontraumatic nonarthritic knee pain in adults. This article seeks to fill that void with practical tips and an at-a-...
Clinical Review
Woman, 66, With Persistent Abdominal and Back Pain
Medicolegal Issues
A Cocktail of Medications Leads to Death
News
Opioid Prescribing Varies Widely Across the Country
Key clinical point: Increasing physician education, changes in legislation, and enforcement action at the state level may have the greatest...
PURLs
Treating Migraine: The Case for Aspirin
News
Look for Centralized Pain in Rheumatic Diseases
News
Online Self-Help Tool Benefits Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Major finding: Significant differences favoring the intervention group over the wait-list group were maintained from immediately after...
News
Checklist increased physician confidence in using opiates to manage chronic pain
Major finding: After adding a standardized checklist to the existing electronic medical records system that contained elements of a clinic-wide...