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  1. V

    Targeting sodium channels — challenges for acute pain and the leap to chronic pain, 2025, Alsaloum, Vasylyev, Waxman.

    I am still reading this… this is a very good summary by some leading researchers about the difficulties they have encountered in trying to develop non-opioid painkillers using the sodium channel Nav1.8. It’s been a difficult and perplexing process and there’s an immense amount of pressure to...
  2. V

    Drawing the lines of fibromyalgia: a mixed-methods approach to mapping body image, body schema, and emotions in patient subtypes, 2024, Swidrak

    Spanish authors…. I did not read beyond the abstract. it seems rather stunning to me that this is considered science… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39557041/ I found a pre-print here...
  3. Andy

    Media articles about endometriosis

    "Endometriosis is excruciating. But the medical scale for pain is tragically flawed, leaving women in particular to suffer On a scale of zero to 10, with zero being no pain at all and 10 being the worst pain imaginable, how is your pain? Because pain is impossible to diagnose objectively...
  4. hellytheelephant

    The Chronic Elephant blog by hellytheelephant

    'Looking Forward' to Another Year of ME.... This Chronic Elephant Blog is about how coping with the daunting prospect of another year of ME: https://thechronicelephant.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/hippy-pants.html
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  5. Andy

    Concurrent validation of a pressure pain threshold scale for individuals with myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia, 2018, Cheatham et al

    Paywalled at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10669817.2017.1349592?journalCode=yjmt20
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