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Pain Management
Daily Treatment Report
Cognitive Therapy-CBT-Psychotherapy
Device Therapy
Drug Side-Effects and Interactions
Celecoxib Can Adversely Affect Heart Rhythm, Study Suggests "COX-2 inhibitors like Celecoxib have come under scrutiny lately due to adverse cardiovascular side-effects stemming from COX-2 reduction. In both fruit fly and rat models, researchers reveal another adverse effect of Celecoxib; this drug can induce arrhythmia. More interestingly, this effect is independent of the COX-2 enzyme."
Drugs
Antidepressants for the treatment of chronic pain. (Drugs. 2008)
Opioids for metastatic bone pain. (Oncology. 2008)
What Is the Maximum Safe Dose of Opioids?
Oxycodone: a review of its use in the management of pain (Current Medical Research and Opinion 2008)
Exercise
Modest Exercise Helps Chronic Pain Patients
General Information
The Jury Is Still Out On How Best To Treat Chronic Pain
Management of chronic musculoskeletal pain in the Elderly: Opinions on oral medication use. (Inflammopharmacology. 2008)
Quality of Chronic Pain Websites (Pain Medicine 2008) "Patients with access to the Internet identified the five most common keywords they used to look up information: pain, chronic pain, back pain, arthritis, and fibromyalgia. . The overall quality of this group of Websites is rather poor, although there were several excellent sites. Websites located on the main search page had a significantly higher score than those in the sponsored section, and Websites based on standards had a significantly higher score than those that were not."
Guidelines
NGC - Assessment and management of pain. (2007)
NGC - Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations. (2007)
Immunotherapy
Internet Sites
Treatment Information
Drug-Food-Supplement Information
DrugDigest (drug interactions)
FDA - Drug Interactions: What You Should Know
NIH - Botanical Dietary Supplements: Background Information
NIH - Drug, Supplements, and Herbal Information
NIH - Herbal Supplements: Consider Safety, Too
NIH - Vitamin and Mineral Supplement Fact Sheets
Nutrition
Other
Other Treatments
Massage May Relieve Pain, Improve Mood in Patients With Advanced Cancer
A Cochrane Systematic Review of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Cancer Pain. (J Pain Symptom Manage. 2008)
Acupuncture for Pain Management (Geriatrics Aging. 2008)
Acupuncture for chronic pain in Japan: a review. (Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2007)
Radiotherapy
Supplements-Vitamins-CAM
Surgery
The role of peripheral nerve surgery in the management of painful chronic wounds: indications and outcomes. (Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008)
Transplantation
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