Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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To compare physical, sensory, and psychosocial factors between individuals with greater trochanteric pain syndrome and controls and to explore factors associated with pain and disability. ⋯ Patients with greater trochanteric pain syndrome exhibited poorer health-related quality of life, physical impairments, widespread hyperalgesia, and greater psychological distress than healthy controls. Physical and psychological factors were associated with pain and disability.
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Digital subtraction imaging (DSI) decreases the risk of intravascular injection during cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injection (CTFESI); however, sequence acquisition and interpretation are operator-dependent skills. This study tests the reliability of a grading system to determine adequate DSI during CTFESI. ⋯ The proposed grading system for adequate-quality DSI during CTFESI showed overall "moderate" and "very strong" inter- and intrarater reliability, respectively. This scheme provides an objective measure of DSI quality for CTFESI. Refinement is needed to improve the reliability of this scheme.
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To determine the autonomic effects of suboccipital release (SOR) during experimentally induced pain, 16 healthy subjects (eight women, eight men) experienced ischemic (forearm postexercise muscle ischemia [PEMI]) and cold (cold pressor test [CPT]) pain. ⋯ SOR has the capacity to modulate pain-induced autonomic control and regulation.
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Although past research has identified differences in pain between non-Latino white (NLW) and Latino persons, few studies have focused on the influence of social support. The purpose of the present study was to determine if the association between the number of social support sources and ratings of pain intensity and pain interference differed as a function of ethnicity. ⋯ These findings suggest important differences between NLW and Latino Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the association between social support and pain. Future research should examine ethnic differences in pain-specific support received from the social environment.