One in 5 Back Pain Patients Experience Persistent Pain
Significant differences seen in patterns of medication, health care use across back pain trajectories.
Pain Management
Greater Walking Frequency, Duration May Reduce Risk for Low Back Pain
Regular and prolonged walking was found to be associated with a reduced the risk for low back pain in Koreans age >50.
Available Vial Sizes Can Cut Drug Waste in Weight-Based Dosing
Vial preparation sizes can be optimized to reduce drug wastage, reduce costs.
Ultrarestrictive Opioid Prescription Protocol May Be Effective for Postoperative Pain Management
Implementation of an ultrarestrictive protocol for opioid prescriptions was found to be associated with reductions in the amount of opioids prescribed after abdominal and gynecologic surgery.
FDA Advisory Panels: Prescribe Naloxone With Opioid Painkillers
Federal government urged to make naloxone more widely available, easier to obtain, and cheaper.
Early PT Linked to Less Opioid Use in Musculoskeletal Pain
For opioid-naive patients, early physical therapy tied to less opioid use in shoulder, neck, knee, back pain.
Guidelines Developed for Opioid Use in Vaginal Birth
Guidelines include use of lowest effective dose, smallest quantity of opioids needed for expected pain.
Manual Therapy vs Opioids for Management of Shoulder, Spine Pain
Choosing — or starting treatment with — manual therapy over opioid medications for the management of spine or shoulder may result in lower associated downstream costs.
Intervention by Pharmacists May Effectively Reduce Use of Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly
An intervention by community pharmacists consisting of sending elderly patients educational information on deprescribing of inappropriate medications resulted in higher levels of discontinuation of inappropriate medications within 6 months compared with those in patients who received usual care.
AI-Based Smartphone App Can Help Cut Cancer Pain Severity
App can cut both severity of advanced cancer patients’ reported pain and hospital admissions.
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