Pain News

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Successful Gout Treatment Requires Up To 33 Months to Clear Urate Crystals From Joint Fluid
Reduction of serum uric acid levels eventually clears urate crystals from the synovial fluid in patients with gout, but this may require up to 33 months of treatment in some cases...Pascual E, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2007;66:1056-1058.

Monday, July 09, 2007 Zap Away Knee OA Pain With Pulsed Electrostimulation
Pulsed electrostimulation may be a safe and effective way to reduce pain and improve function in knee OA patients...

Thursday, June 28, 2007 Knee OA Synovitis Linked To Pain but Not To Cartilage Loss
Longitudinal MRI shows that changes in knee synovitis correlate with pain but not with cartilage loss in knee OA and suggest that treatment targeted to synovitis may improve pain…

Monday, June 25, 2007 Pfizer's Lyrica^R Receives FDA Approval for Fibromyalgia in Adults

Pfizer Inc announced that the US FDA approved Lyrica® (pregabalin) capsules CV for the management of fibromyalgia, one of the most common chronic, widespread pain conditions in the US...

Friday, June 15, 2007 Two Thirds of Gout Patients Receiving No, or Not Enough Treatment
A number of new treatment options for gout are available, but the major clinical problem is that even after gout diagnosis, only about one third of patients receive urate-lowering therapy...

Monday, May 07, 2007 Selected Presentations From the American Pain Society Meeting
American Pain Society presentations included new research on genetic factors associated with TMJD and with shoulder pain, a randomized trial of nabilone for fibromyalgia, and the intersection between chronic pain and PTSD...

Thursday, May 03, 2007 Parental Responses May Perpetuate Catastrophizing in Adolescents With Chronic Pain
Parents of adolescents who have chronic musculoskeletal pain may be unwittingly encouraging  a psychological pattern that worsens both pain intensity and functional disability in their children...

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Foot Orthoses Produce Short-Term Benefits in Plantar Fasciitis
Foot orthoses can improve pain and function from plantar fasciitis in the short-term, but the effects don't seem to last a year…Landorf, KB, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1305-1310.

Friday, June 23, 2006 Quick Response to Steroids, Symmetrical Joint Pain Distinguish PMR From Elderly-Onset RA
Clinical and laboratory findings tend to be unhelpful in distinguishing between rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica in the elderly; instead, the symmetric involvement of peripheral joints and the rapid response to low-dose oral corticosteroid therapy should be considered key diagnostic features of PMR... Salvarani, C. 2006 EULAR meeting; June 21–24 2006; Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 EULAR Fibromyalgia Recommendations Surprisingly Upbeat
Far from being a hard-to-treat condition, fibromyalgia is yielding to a whole range of pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies, according to a review presented by Ernest H. Choy, MD, at the 2006 EULAR Meeting...