Persistent pain lasting more than three months that affects daily functioning and quality of life.
✦ AI summary
Chronic pain shows up across many different conditions in these sources, with a range of causes and treatment approaches being studied. In conditions like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, chronic pain is linked to joint instability and dislocations, and management focuses on physical therapy, pain management, and individualized care rather than surgery when possible [1]. For specific nerve-related pain conditions like occipital neuralgia, surgical techniques such as nerve decompression have shown significant improvement in pain symptoms and reduced medication use in study participants [2]. For complex regional pain syndrome, researchers are exploring different approaches including local injection techniques (with mixed results so far) [4] and immune-system-targeting drugs in animal models [8]. Newer or complementary approaches are also being studied, such as virtual reality programs for arthritis-related pain, which showed modest pain reduction and were viewed as usable by participants [5], and improving pain education for teachers to help support young people with persistent pain [7]. Additionally, fibromyalgia—a chronic pain condition—appears more commonly studied and reported in women, though researchers note that research gaps make it unclear whether this reflects true differences between sexes or biases in what's been studied [10].
This is an AI-generated summary of the sources below — not medical advice. Always talk to a doctor or pharmacist about your own situation.
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Complications and Management of Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders: A Literature Review.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a group of inherited disorders affecting collagen and extracellular matrix proteins, which can cause skin hyperelasticity, joint hypermobility, atrophic scarring, and blood vessel fragility. Complications include joint dislocation, chronic pain, fatigue, functional ga…
Efficacy analysis of combined nerve combing and decompression for occipital neuralgia based on the classification of neurovascular relationships.
This study set occipital pain improvement as the primary endpoint, and overall headache relief, migraine index, medication use and complication rate as secondary endpoints, to evaluate the efficacy and safety of neural combing plus decompression guided by four neurovascular relationship subtypes for…
From compression to denervation: Multimodality imaging of cervical rib-related arterial thoracic outlet syndrome.
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) encompasses a spectrum of disorders caused by compression of neurovascular structures at the thoracic outlet. Arterial thoracic outlet syndrome (aTOS) is rare, accounting for less than 1% of cases, yet carries significant morbidity due to arterial injury, thrombosis, a…
Patient Experiences and Preliminary Effects of Virtual Reality Based Pain Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With Persistent Pain Despite Low Disease Activity: A Mixed Method Pilot Study.
This study aimed to examine the acceptability, usability, patient perceptions and preliminary effects of a virtual reality (VR) based pain management programme for people with rheumatoid arthritis with persistent pain despite low disease activity. This study used a two-phase mixed-methods approach w…
Mesotherapy With Lidocaine and Ketamine in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1: A Randomized Double-Blind Trial.
Complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) is a disabling pain syndrome whose treatment remains challenging. Mesotherapy is a therapeutic method involving the injection of low doses of active substances through the skin. No studies assessed mesotherapy in CRPS1 patients. The aim of this study was…
Unraveling the regulatory mechanisms of tetrandrine in microglial phenotypic transition and neuronal autophagy for relieving diabetic neuropathic pain.
Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) is a prevalent and debilitating complication of diabetes mellitus, characterized by persistent pain and neuroinflammation. Current treatments often provide inadequate relief, highlighting the need for novel therapeutic strategies targeting its underlying mechanisms. T…
Esketamine alleviates trigeminal neuralgia and anxiety-like behaviors in mice by inhibiting RIPK1/RIPK3/MLKL-mediated necroptosis.
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a debilitating orofacial pain condition frequently complicated by anxiety and depression, forming a self-reinforcing pain-affect cycle with limited therapeutic options. A TN mouse model with anxiety-like behavior was established using partial infraorbital nerve transecti…
Emerging Pharmacological Strategies for Trigeminal Neuralgia.
Trigeminal neuralgia can be a debilitating pain condition that affects women more frequently than men and for which there are only limited therapeutic avenues. Trigeminal neuralgia can either be idiopathic (where there is no clearly identifiable cause), classical (which typically involves neurovascu…