Patients with lower back pain that can’t be traced to a specific physical cause may have abnormal pain-processing pathways in their brains, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.
The effect, which as yet has no explanation, is similar to an altered pain perception effect in fibromyalgia patients recently reported by the same research team.
In fact, the study f…
Does clinical depression bring about chronic pain? Or does pain lead to depression?
Because these two conditions frequently co-exist (30 to 54 percent of patients with major depressive disorder also suffer persistent physical pain) there has been much speculation about whether one causes the other or whether a common underlying factor provokes both.
Results of studies into the precise nat…
A Sydney-based research organisation named Neura is behind a trial aiming to test whether brain training is an effective treatment for back pain. Aptly named, RESOLVE, this medical trial is testing whether applying electricity to the brain will do more to reduce chronic pain than working only with the musculoskeletal system.
Author Ira Brodsky’s New Book, The History and Future of Medical Technology, Demystifies the Technologies Used to Diagnose and Treat Illnesses
Some health care reform advocates complain that physicians rely too much on expensive technology. Published by Telescope Books, The History and Future of Medical Technology shows that today’s medical technologies are worth every penny-saving lives, im…
Arthritis pain is processed in brain areas concerned with emotions and fear…… finds Study, indicating target for pain-relieving therapies.
How does the brain process the experience of pain?
Thanks to advances in neuroimaging, we now know the answer lies in a network of brain structures called the pain matrix. This matrix contains two parallel systems. The medial pain system processes…
Researchers in the School of Medicine have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life.
Dr Paul Kingham and his team at the UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration (UKCTR) isolated the stem cells from the fat tissue of adult animals and differentiated them into nerve cells to be used for repair a…
In Australia, one in two women and one in three men over the age of 60 will sustain a bone fracture. It is also estimated that the death rate in women from hip fractures is greater than the incidence of all female cancers combined. Osteoporosis, or ‘porous bones’, is a disease where bone density and structural quality deteriorate, leading to an increased risk of fracture. Common sites are the w…
The Laser-Guided Spine Localizer is the latest innovation in minimally invasive spinal surgery. The localizer is the invention of Dr. Peyman Pakzaban, M.D., a neurosurgeon affiliated with Bayshore Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas.
The goal of minimally invasive spinal surgery is to make the smallest incision possible, avoiding major tissue dissection and trauma for the patient. The smaller …
Study Suggests Possible Role of Embryonic Cells from the Notochord of Dogs to Regenerate Disc Cartilage.
Degenerative disc disease is one of today’s most common and costly medical conditions. Marked by the gradual erosion of cartilage between the vertebrae, this destructive disease of the spine routinely provokes low back pain, the leading cause of disability in people under age 45 in the Un…
Chronic widespread pain, a common medical condition, can be difficult to treat and is often associated with fatigue, poor sleep and depression.
A connection between fibromayalgia (FM) and cytokines (proteins that act as messengers between cells) was suspected after cancer patients treated with the cytokine interleukin -2 developed FM-like symptoms. Since then, other studies have shown contra…
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