Approximately 20% of patients following total knee replacement (TKR) suffer from chronic postsurgical pain. Numerous non-modifiable risk factors for the development of chronic postsurgical pain have been identified in the literature, for example female gender. ...
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Chronic pain following total knee replacement
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Is there a neural basis for sensorimotor impairments in non-specific low back pain?
Globally, low back pain causes more disability than any other condition. Unfortunately, most people will experience this condition at some point in their lives. Treating low back pain is very challenging because in up to ...
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Twin Studies Lend New Insights into Link between Depression and Back Pain
The prevalence of patients concurrently suffering from both depression and low back pain is high and the combination of these conditions is associated with treatment difficulties, such as the need for engaging multi-professional teams and ...
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What does current Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) rehabilitation look like?
As a practicing clinician I recognise that CRPS is notoriously difficult to treat. International clinical guidelines recommend rehabilitation therapies as a core treatment for CRPS (1,2,3). They suggest a very broad range of possible treatments ...
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Editor’s picks: Clinical prediction rules: Use the babies and throw the bathwater?
Over this holiday season we are publishing our Editor’s picks of 2017 for you to read and enjoy again. — There are easily a thousand clinical prediction rules (CPRs) related to managing musculoskeletal pain. Okay, ...