Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols have been in place for two decades and have demonstrated improvements in perioperative morbidity, mortality, recovery times, as well as decreases in the length of hospital stays (LOS). ERAS …
verfasst von:
Brian Osman, Jagan Devarajan, Austin Skinner, Fred Shapiro
29.05.2024 | Alternative Treatments for Pain Medicine (C Robinson, Section Editor)
Recent years have seen substantial advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that have impacted the lives of millions of people. The repercussions and applications of these advances, however, extend far beyond the technical field. Applications of …
verfasst von:
Maria Emilia Mazzolenis, Evgeny Bulat, Michael E. Schatman, Chris Gumb, Christopher J. Gilligan, Robert J. Yong
Open Access
28.05.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Vestibular migraine (VM) is the most common cause of episodic vertigo in children and adults [ 1 ]. This migraine subtype presents with vestibular symptoms associated with migraine symptoms. It is listed in the appendix of the International …
Lumbar puncture (LP) is a common procedure involving placing a needle into the subarachnoid space below the level of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Diagnostic sampling of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is integral to the workup …
verfasst von:
Alexandra E. Reis, Matthew Spano, Cecilia Davis-Hayes, Gayle R. Salama
18.05.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Acute pain can cause significant distress leading to morbidity and mortality Healthcare providers must remain steadfast in the goal of ensuring patient comfort and positive outcomes. Previous methods aimed at easing acute pain have been successful …
verfasst von:
Alan D. Kaye, Driskell R. Greene, Catherine Nguyen, Amanda Ragland, Mason P. Granger, William Peyton Wilhite, Kylie Dufrene, Sahar Shekoohi, Christopher L. Robinson
18.05.2024 | Chronic Daily Headache (S-J Wang and S-P Chen, Section Editors)
Migraine is a common condition that affects individuals in the productive age group of 15–49 years and causes the greatest number of years lived with a disability in this age group [ 1 ]. Management of migraine consists of acute treatment to …
verfasst von:
Woo-Seok Ha, Min Kyung Chu
07.05.2024 | New and Emerging Therapies in Interventional Pain Medicine (J Hasoon, Section Editor)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when external mechanical forces cause damage to the brain and lead to temporary or permanent impairment. Symptoms can include physical, emotional, cognitive, and sleep problems, for example, headache …
verfasst von:
Olivia Kingsford, Mustafa Yehya, Glynnis Zieman, Kerry L. Knievel
Open Access
07.05.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Migraine is the second leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than one billion people [ 1 ]. Chronic migraine (CM), defined as migraine occurring for ≥ 15 days for at least three consecutive months, with symptoms of migraine …
Lacrimal neuralgia was first reported by Juan A. Pareja and María-Luz Cuadrado from Madrid, Spain [ 1 ] in 2013 in two patients who experienced pain in the area next to the lateral canthus. As with other pericranial neuralgias, patients with …
verfasst von:
Wei Lin, Jr-Wei Wu, Jennifer I. Stern, Carrie E. Robertson, Chia-Chun Chiang
Open Access
23.04.2024 | Neuropathic Pain (A Abd-Elsayed, Section Editor)
Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) refer to a wide range of musculoarticular clinical conditions related to the stomatognathic apparatus [ 1 , 2 ]. The main related symptoms are muscle or joint pain during function, headache, preauricular pain …
verfasst von:
Maria Marcelly Lúcio Mota, Igor Hudson Albuquerque e Aguiar, Anderson Silva de Lima, Olavo Barbosa de Oliveira Neto, Pâmela Lopes Pedro da Silva, Eduarda Correia Moretti, George Azevedo Lemos
20.04.2024 | Acute Pain Medicine (R Urman, Section Editor)
Numerous methods exist for delivering analgesia or pain relief, encompassing both pharmacological agents and interventional techniques. Recent advancements include peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), an FDA-cleared, non-opioid pain management …
verfasst von:
Alan D. Kaye, Taylor R. Plaisance, Summer A. Smith, Amanda R. Ragland, Michael J. Alfred, Catherine G. Nguyen, Azem A. Chami, Saurabh Kataria, Kylie Dufrene, Sahar Shekoohi, Christopher L. Robinson
Open Access
18.04.2024 | Alternative Treatments for Pain Medicine (C Robinson, Section Editor)
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease that results from wear and tear and progressive loss of articular cartilage [ 1 ]. This condition causes chronic pain and locomotor disability, leading to significant impact on mobility …
verfasst von:
He Chen, Hangyu Shi, Shuai Gao, Jiufei Fang, Jiamin Yi, Wenhui Wu, Xinkun Liu, Zhishun Liu
Over the past three decades, research has established a link between migraine and vestibular symptoms beyond coincidence. As a distinct clinical entity, vestibular migraine is now considered as one of the most common causes of migraine-associated …
verfasst von:
Tzu-Chou Huang, Qadeer Arshad, Amir Kheradmand
13.04.2024 | Non-pharmacologic Aspects of Pain, Migraine, and Headache (D Buse, Section Editor)
Therapeutic pain education is advised within the multimodal physiotherapy management of migraine [ 1 , 2 •]. Including such education has already proven to be beneficial to decrease the frequency of migraine attacks [ 2 •]. A higher headache …
verfasst von:
Sarah Mingels, Marita Granitzer, Kerstin Luedtke, Wim Dankaerts
12.04.2024 | Chronic Pain Medicine (O Viswanath, Section Editor)
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a minimally invasive technique used to manage chronic pain, including conditions such as failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), complex regional pain syndrome I & II, and diabetic neuropathy [ 1 ]. Various theories …
verfasst von:
Ahish Chitneni, Esha Jain, Sidharth Sahni, Philippe Mavrocordatos, Alaa Abd-Elsayed
