Pain Management

Sample: Approximately what percentage of physician office visits at which benzodiazepines were coprescribed with opioids were with a primary care provider?

Of the 41% of kratom users who reported taking it for opioid withdrawal, 35% went >1 year without taking opioids or heroin.

Sample: True or false? In addition to reducing pain, acupuncture has been shown to reduce the use of opioids among patients with cancer-related pain.

From measles resurgence to new CVD guidelines, refresh your memory of this year’s highlights with our quiz on the most-read content on Patient Care®.

Q&A: What do you know about migraine Rx and Tx in the emergency department?

A novel report on US opioid misuse melds results from a Harris Poll of 500 primary care physicians with Quest Diagnostics data on 4.4 million drug monitoring tests.

Opioid prescribing after outpatient surgery looks very different in the US, Canada, and Sweden. Which drugs are favored? How much is prescribed? Test your intuition.

Opioid prescribing is more likely toward the end of the clinic day and as appointments run farther behind. A pain specialist reviews study findings.

Which patients are more likely to be prescribed chronic opioids by their primary care physician? Should we be concerned? A new study offers insight.

A personal EKG monitor, an app that wirelessly connects to a smart thermometer, and 3 more FDA-cleared apps for primary care. 

Test your assumptions about opioid prescriptions and documentation practice with this 5-question quiz. 

Find out how much you know about which patients are at a higher risk for opioid misuse vs those that can benefit from them with this 10-question quiz. 

When acute pain seen in primary care is treated with an initial opioid Rx, what factors are related to request for refill within 30 days?

Fremanezumab shown to be effective in treating acute and episodic migraine, according to a new presentation at PAINWeek 2018. 

News from PAINWeek 2018: "Tapering [opioids] is not detoxification," was one among many cautions and recommendations offered during several presentations in Las Vegas, Sept 4-8.

News from PAINWeek 2018: Lofexidine is found particularly suited to mitigate symptoms of rapid opioid withdrawal given its agonist activity at the 5-HT-1A serotonin receptor.

News from PAINWeek 2018: Electroceuticals could replace opioids in the treatment of chronic pain.

What's your pain IQ? Find out with this 12-question round-up from popular Patient Care pain quizzzes.

Do the current LBP guidelines for primary care have it right? If so, are you up-to-date on them? Find out with our 11-question quiz.  

How much do you know about the efficacy of different nonpharmacological treatment methods for pain? Take this 12-question quiz to find out. 

Low back pain is a common disability, but how much do we really know about it? Test your LBP knowledge with our 11-question quiz. 

The OIG is worried about the over prescribing of opioids for elders. What do you know about the issues?

The "new year" is now in full swing and new drugs are being approved each month; check out our slideshow to get up to date on 9 drugs approved in the first quarter for primary care. 

When the cure becomes worse than the cause, it’s MOH. See what you know about these hard-to-treat headaches.

Here are 7 facts that support the use of acupuncture to manage pain (chronic and acute) that may surprise you.