Pain
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Opioid Prescribing Varies Widely Across the Country
Key clinical point: Increasing physician education, changes in legislation, and enforcement action at the state level may have the greatest...
PURLs
Treating Migraine: The Case for Aspirin
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Look for Centralized Pain in Rheumatic Diseases
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Online Self-Help Tool Benefits Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Major finding: Significant differences favoring the intervention group over the wait-list group were maintained from immediately after...
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Checklist increased physician confidence in using opiates to manage chronic pain
Major finding: After adding a standardized checklist to the existing electronic medical records system that contained elements of a clinic-wide...
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Recognizing and treating inflammatory subtype of osteoarthritis
Medicolegal Issues
Pain Out of Proportion to a Fracture
Clinical Review
Chronic headache: Stop the pain before it starts
Familiarity with the risks associated with medication overuse and the importance of headache prophylaxis is key to easing your patient’s pain.
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Not just a sprain: 4 foot and ankle injuries you may be missing
Sprained ankle is common—and commonly overdiagnosed by clinicians who fail to consider these subtle fractures and tendon injuries. Here are 4 to...