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Guideline: Widely Used Device For Pain Therapy Not Recommended For Chronic Low Back Pain
A new guideline issued by the American Academy of Neurology finds that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), a widely used pain therapy involving a portable device, is not recommended to treat chronic low-back pain pain that has persisted for three months or longer because research shows it is not effective…
American Pain Society Endorses FDA Guideline For Medication Disposal
Calling it “an important first step in attempting to reverse an escalating public health menace caused by diversion of prescription opioid pain medications,” the American Pain Society today announced its support for a new FDA initiative to encourage consumers to remove unused pain drugs from home medicine cabinets…
New Guideline For The Treatment Of Pediatric Diaphyseal Femur Fractures
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Board of Directors approved a new clinical practice guideline for the treatment of pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures. Diaphyseal (the shaft of a long bone) fracture of the femur (the bone in the thigh) is a very common childhood injury.
New Guideline For Low-Back Pain Interventions, Surgery Issued By The American Pain Society
The American Pain Society (APS) has issued a new clinical practice guideline for low back pain that emphasizes the use of noninvasive treatments over interventional procedures, as well as shared decision making between provider and patient. The findings are published in the current (May 1, 2009) issue of the journal Spine.
New Guideline For Low-back Pain Interventions, Surgery
The American Pain Society has issued a new clinical practice guideline for low-back pain that emphasizes noninvasive treatments over interventional procedures, and shared decision making between provider and patient. The guideline, based on a review of 3,348 abstracts and 161 clinical trials provides clinicians with eight recommendations to help determine the best way to treat patients with low-back pain.
Guideline For Treating Chronic Non-Cancer Pain With Opioid Medications
A national panel of pain management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published the first comprehensive, evidence-based clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. The long-awaited guideline appears in the current issue of The Journal of Pain, http://www.jpain.
New Guideline For Prescribing Opioid Pain Drugs
A national panel of national pain management experts has published the first comprehensive, evidence-based clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer pain.
Bladder Pain Syndrome / Interstitial Cystitis (BPS/IC) – Exclusive Report From 2008 Asian IC Guideline Meeting
HUALIAN, TAIWAN (UroToday.com) – The annual Asian Interstitial Cystitis Meeting was devoted to the subject of developing an Asian IC Guideline for publication next year. Participants came from Korea (Young Ho Kim, Jeong Gu Lee, JY Hong, Kim Duk Yoon), Japan (Yukio Homma, Tomohiro Ueda, Takaaki Ito, Hikaru Tomoe, Mineo Takei) Taiwan (Shing-Hwa Lu, Ming Hui Lee, YC Chuang and Dr. Wang) and the United States (this correspondent). The meeting was organized by Dr. Alex Lin and hosted by Dr.
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