Pain Management

Comprehensive JAMA review highlights pathophysiology, clinical presentation, causes, diagnosis, management and prognosis.

Study finds it is just as effective as ketamine at blocking muscarinic receptors, which are responsible for involuntary bladder contractions.

Several important lessons were underscored by a visit for a simple spider bite.

My pain clinic has done a lot over the years to streamline the referral process. Our project of an internal audit became so thorough it actually turned into a study published in the Canadian Journal of Pain. But nothing is perfect—and primary care docs and specialists can always do better.

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele.

Health officials in Canada and Europe have previously approved a pharmaceutical-grade form of cannabis for several types of pain, including nerve pain due to multiple sclerosis.

‘Health Canada currently maintains that there is no conclusive evidence that using acetaminophen as directed during pregnancy causes autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.’

A deluge of questions could be coming your way.