ucd.ie Background: Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a common clinical presentation. Various neuromuscular factors have been reported to contribute to its aetiology. Study design: Systematic ...

And the less you sleep, the worse your pain and stiffness could become. You don’t have to settle for disrupted sleep. See your rheumatologist and primary care doctor for advice on how to manage ...

Abnormalities in endogenous pain inhibitory mechanisms, such as diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC), may be implicated and were investigated during brain functional magnetic ... mm horizontal ...

University of Manchester scientists have successfully pioneered a way to create functioning human spinal disks, aiming to revolutionize our understanding of back pain ... functional disk models at ...

Means, President Trump’s new pick for surgeon general, has focused on the prevalence of chronic diseases and called on the government to scale back ... practice so-called functional medicine ...

The primary outcome was the change in patients’ knee pain, measured by a 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS) score, assessed at 12 weeks. A 10-mm VAS score margin was pre-established to determine ...

Background Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) carries a significant burden of disease. The last edition of the Rome Criteria (Rome IV) allows the diagnosis of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) ...

Here, we deploy a recent fMRI deconvolution technique to express resting-state temporal fluctuations as a combination of large-scale functional network activity profiles. Then, building upon a novel ...

1-3 mild pain, 4-6 moderate, 7-9 intense and 10 unbearable. The BPI is a multidimensional scale with good psychometric properties, consisting of 15 items that assess: existence, intensity, location, ...

Functional Somatic Disorders (FSD ... For example, if a patient reports persistent chest pain without cardiac disease activity and experiences a reduction or disappearance of pain upon focusing on ...

Pain or discomfort in the chest (front or back) The chest includes from the top to the bottom of the rib cage Chest pains in children lasting for a few minutes are usually harmless. The pain can be ...