Central sensitization may be an important underlying factor that complicates the treatment of chronic pain and opioid use disorders, researchers wrote in PAIN Reports. Orman Trent Hall, DO, an ...

Findings suggest that including slowly repeated evoked pain (SREP) in quantitative sensory testing protocols may enhance assessments of altered pain modulation in different pain conditions. Study ...

The burden of chronic pain. Source: GoodIdeas / Shutterstock Nerve sensitization often contributes to chronic pain states, such as back pain, migraines, and irritable bowel. Sensitization is an ...

ORLANDO — Patients completing an outpatient interdisciplinary chronic pain rehabilitation program (iCPRP) at the Cleveland Clinic have significantly reduced self-reported central sensitization (CS) ...

Hip Bursitis Patients with greater trochanteric pain syndrome may have altered conditioned pain modulation, as well as a high number of pain locations associated with negative conditioned pain ...

Ketamine may be more effective in relieving postoperative pain in patients with a higher propensity for central sensitization, as indicated by TSP scores. Central sensitization can lead to prolonged ...

Gabapentin is a gamma-aminobutyric acid derivative, and was approved for the treatment of neuropathic pain by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002. However, little evidence is available on ...

Despite extensive research, the pathogenesis of pain in fibromyalgia syndrome is incompletely understood. Fibromyalgia pain is consistently felt in deep tissues including ligaments, joints and muscles ...

Pain represents the cardinal symptom of osteoarthritis, yet its intensity, quality, and impact vary dramatically among ...