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Dec 2025 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-25-5402
Shih-Chieh YangCorresponding author
Background Prescribing appropriate analgesics with optimal dosages based on patients' pain severity is challenging, especially when multiple painkillers are involved. Tracking and analyzing the effectiveness of analgesics and their dosages over time is crucial for pain management. Existing systems l…
Oct 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-24-5319
Nivriti PuriCorresponding author
Chronic pain affects over 30% of the global population, and reliance on external drugs for treatment has led to major issues, including the present opioid epidemic. A healthier option is necessary, which is why music therapy’s analgesic effects have been extensively studied within the last 20 years.…
Feb 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-23-4844
Soley ArslanCorresponding author
An experimental study examines how pain perception alters synaptic and somatic plasticity in the dentate gyrus. It summarizes methods, key electrophysiological findings, and implications for pain‑related cognitive effects.
Feb 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-24-4967
Akbar NikkhahCorresponding author
This editorial aims to propose and delineate that disciplined open-air exercise can slow down aging in humans. The aging process may be slowed down by outdoor physical training (e.g., mountaineering, climbing, running, swimming, walking, jogging) mainly because of fresh air inhalation and psychologi…
Jan 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-24-4890
Ray MarksCorresponding author
Knee joint osteoarthritis, a chronic condition resulting in considerable disability, particularly in later life, not only impacts life quality significantly and severely, but is also strongly associated with the persistence of intractable pain, depression, helplessness, and a high falls injury risk.…
Aug 2023 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-23-4624
James AndersonCorresponding author
Periauricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (pVNS) has been proven safe and effective in reducing chronic pain and related comorbidities in numerous clinical studies. This multicenter, interventional study used a non-randomized, interrupted time-series analysis to test the efficacy of an 8-week treatment…
Oct 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2643-2811.jmbr-22-4258
Raúl IseaCorresponding author
This work proposes a modification of a compartmental-type model based on the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) scheme to describe the dynamics of contagion by Covid-19 in any part of the world, including also the numerical and analytical calculation of the mantissa and the resolution of…
Aug 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2832-4048.jsm-20-3519
Seyedeh Nasim HabibzadehCorresponding author
Some certain foods or drinks have specific effects on musculoskeletal frameworks in time of pain. For instance, the extra intake of salt declines muscular spams (or cramps) in different limbs. The regular consumptions of milk products reduce the upper or lower musculature weakness and pain. The hot…
Jun 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386
Carlo PrunetiCorresponding author
How to define pain? One of the most accredited definition is certainly “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" (IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain - 1986) and World Health Organization…
Jun 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-19-2731
Xiang WeiCorresponding author
The rise of epigenetics provides a new idea for studying the regulation of chronic pain-related genes and synaptic plasticity. External environmental stimuli can regulate BDNF genes through different epigenetic modifications. The epigenetic changes of the BDNF gene can affect the expression of its m…
Apr 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-19-2717
David IpCorresponding author
Objective The current clinical case series assess the clinical outcome of the use of low-level laser in the treatment of painful pediatric fractures not solidly consolidated and re-modelled after casting for a standard of 4-6 weeks Materials and Methods The patient cohort consisted of 17 consecutive…
Mar 2019
Valeria Paula Sassoli FazanCorresponding author
We used a behavioral test to investigate long-term consequences of neonatal noxious stimulus in the anxiety-like behavior and describe differences between males and females. Male and female Wistar rats were submitted to either tactile (control groups) or noxious stimulus (pain groups) since birth, f…
Aug 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-3585.jpmc-18-2178
Elissavet N. RousanoglouCorresponding author
Several studies examine the musculoskeletal pain (MSP) in university students sustaining physical load as part of their compulsory learning. However, only two somewhat outdated cross-sectional studies examine the physical education teacher (PET) students. This study aimed to explore the neck, should…
Mar 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2578-8590.ipj-18-1952
Nestor LagosCorresponding author
Objective To evaluate the effect of a single intraarticular dose of Gonyautoxins for pain control after Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). Subjects 30 consecutive patients with osteoarthritis with Kellgren & Lawrence level of two or more, who required TKA, were enrolled. Methods Subjects receive a singl…
Feb 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2470-0436.jos-17-1825
Gang XǔCorresponding author
Background: To measure the affected subepidermal nerve sensation with a combination of current perception threshold (CPT) and Semmes-Weinstein monofilament (SWM) testing under pain areas with herpetic ophthalmic neuralgia (HON). Methods: One hundred fifty-five subjects with HON and 30 age-matched vo…
Feb 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2640-690X.jfm-17-1900
Alaa Ali M. ElzohryCorresponding author
Background PMPS nowadays is common due to advances in both; diagnosis and treatment of cancer breast. Choosing proper treatments can improve the patients’ quality of life. Cancer breast is common and quite important disease and female in our family must be aware of it. Improvement of the diagnosis a…
Aug 2017 DOI 10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-17-1604
Andrea BoveroCorresponding author
Objective To compare Brief Adlerian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (B-APP) plus venlafaxine versus venlafaxine plus usual care on pain and depressive symptomatology of depressed patients with cancer pain. Methods A total of 100 patients with pain and mood depression, according to DSM IV-TR, were random…
Aug 2017 DOI 10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-17-1581
B. GustorffCorresponding author
Background Capsaicin 8% patch reduces peripheral neuropathic pain. Based on the concept of neuropathic pain (NeP) in mixed low back pain (LBP) it is hypothesized, that an exclusively lumbar capsaicin 8% patch is an effective treatment of mixed LBP. The aim is a proof of this concept and to identify…
Jun 2017 DOI 10.14302/issn.2576-9359.jot-17-1570
A. ForsbergCorresponding author
Institute of Health Sciences at Lund University, Sweden.
Chronic bodily pain after lung transplantation has received little attention. Therefore, the aim was to provide a multidimensional assessment of self-reported chronic pain 1-5 years after lung transplantation and its relationship with self-reported psychological general well-being (PGWB) and self-ef…
Mar 2017
Daniel Vélez OrtizCorresponding author
The objective of this study was to examine differences between Latino and White older adults in attitudes toward suicide and physician-assisted suicide in chronic pain scenarios. We used a cross sectional study design at four outpatient care sites in San Antonio, Texas. The study sample included 204…