Pain Management

New Canadian guidelines on opioid prescribing are out and Dr. Angela Mailis summarizes (and praises) these updates.

Evidence shows the pain-reducing strategy works for immunizations and brief procedures.

Fears of severe reaction to the drug have prevented some providers from prescribing it, but appear to be unwarranted.

Systematic review and meta-analysis compares effects of 17 oral monotherapies for acute management of migraine episodes in adults.

Test your knowledge about uncommon pain conditions.

Systematic review examines the effectiveness and adverse effects of long-term use of skeletal muscle relaxants for chronic pain.

Emotional awareness and expression therapy may be beneficial in reducing chronic pain in the general population, according to researchers who examined its effectiveness for older veterans.

Many chronic pain conditions actually involve a combination of all three of these phenomena—nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain—which adds to the difficulty of diagnosis and treatment.