pain

Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment https://academic.oup.com/jpepsy/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104/5273626?redirectedFrom=fulltext Journal of Pediatric Psychology, jsy104, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104 Brian D Earp et al, Published: 04 January 2019 (Paywall)...

From the press release: https://mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/men-and-women-remember-pain-differently-293050 Based on this article: Male-Specific Conditioned Pain Hypersensitivity in Mice and Humans Loren J. Martin et al, Published: January 10, 2019...

Relationship Between Exercise-induced Oxidative Stress Changes and Parasympathetic Activity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: An Observational Study and in Patients and Healthy Subjects Email the author MSc Andrea Polli,Jessica Van Oosterwijck, PhD,Jo Nijs, PhD, Uros Marusic, PhD,Inge De Wandele...

I'm still skeptical. It sounds like he is encouraging patients to hide their symptoms and behave more normally, and even a temporary change in that direction is taken as evidence that a mysterious mind-body illness was successfully treated. This is also not innovative. It's the same old...

https://www.csp.org.uk/frontline/article/childrens-pain-we-can-make-it-better links to FITNET another of NICE guidelines committee members.

Marieke Jepma, Leonie Koban, Johnny van Doorn, Matt Jones, Tor D. Wager. Behavioural and neural evidence for self-reinforcing expectancy effects on pain. Nature Human Behaviour, 2018; 2 (11): 838 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0455-8 Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0455-8 Abstract...

Paywalled at https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sjpain.ahead-of-print/sjpain-2018-0095/sjpain-2018-0095.xml

Exercise-induce hyperalgesia, complement system and elastase activation in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a secondary analysis of experimental comparative studies Polli A1, Van Oosterwijck J2,3, Meeus M3,4, Lambrecht L5, Nijs J6, Ickmans K6. Author information 1 Pain in...

This thread has been split from a thread about a new study: UK: Brighton and Sussex University Hospital and Medical School - Chronic Pain and Fatigue Several years ago CFS research Foundation raised money for a pain study. After Anne Faulkner died, Afme took it over. I havent seen any paper and...

Can my brain cure my back pain? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45721670 Not sure what to think of this, is it good it can prove the placebo effect or bad drs will think that a common, debilitating, unexplained often condition involving pain can be helped by tricking the mind?

Here is new research by Brighton & Sussex University Hospital & Medical School. They are recruiting people for autonomic/inflammatory research arthritisresearchuk.org/research/grant… into mechanisms of chronic pain and fatigue. Looking for patients with #Fibromyalgia or #ME or both in south...

Note from the moderators: The discussion in this thread is focussed on the BPS theory of deconditioning. There is another thread for discussing the issue raised in this post: Muscle atrophy ****************************** Hi Everyone My recent muscle biopsy of my thigh has led to what seems...

This Thursday, almost two weeks ago, I threw out my back, I thought. I slithered to the floor. I knew I had a herniated disc, but I didn't know how bad things were. I have had a herniated disc for a year and a half now. That night, I had to pee constantly. Very quickly I realized, I had done...

Central sensitization: a matter of concern In 1981 Wilbert E. Fordyce challenged conventional wisdom. In one of the most influential findings in modern pain research, he reported a negative relationship between exercise and pain [1]. A subsequent study by Steven Linton confirmed these results...

Hello Lately (but also over the 4 years since I am being ill with diagnosed ME/CFS and post-Lyme disease (weak Elispot LTT values). I have something weird going on: scratches that seem to come from a cat (but I didn't touch any cat in years). Could this be still bartonella? I also didn't...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-neuroscience-of-pain

http://occupyme.net/2018/06/01/talk-to-fda-about-chronic-pain/

While I may agree that unproven symptoms count as syndromes or illnesses, rather than specific diseases, the number of assumptions and false ideas in this article is appalling: Link: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/patient-zero/201805/chronic-pain-is-not-disease Firstly, brain changes...

A short piece on the Pharmacy in Practice website, aimed at health professionals. https://pharmacyinpractice.scot/2018/05/22/patient-perspective-series-my-experience-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-people-and-pain/ There are a few other articles on ME/CFS too in the patient perspective series, eg...

Emphasis added. https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-mode-neurotransmitter-based.html