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Among people with knee osteoarthritis, fear of movement was linked to everyday capacity problems such as poor vision, low mood and memory trouble, and pain changed several of those links. Th…
Read articleOlder adults with rheumatoid arthritis who were more fatigued in the hospital had worse sleep and more trouble with daily activities a month after going home. Fatigue was the only one of 5 t…
Read articleIn a 2026 interview study involving 6 adults with long-term chronic pain in Quebec, participants said their deepest suffering came less from how much they hurt than from what pain did to the…
Read articleA 2026 meta-analysis of 32 randomized trials involving 2,669 participants found that ultrasound-guided acupotomy reduced chronic spinal musculoskeletal pain, with pain intensity improving by…
Read articleA 2026 scoping review screened 956 systematic reviews/guidelines and 604 original studies on cancer-survivor neuropathic pain, but only 11 pharmacological, 2 psychological, and 3 exercise st…
Read articleA 2026 case series of 5 adults with bodily distress disorder found mean pain scores decreased from 9.0 to 3.8 after accelerated transcranial direct current stimulation, with 4 of 5 patients …
Read articleA 2026 targeted metabolomics study of knee osteoarthritis found 33 altered serum metabolites and 10 altered cerebrospinal-fluid metabolites, but the symptom signal split by compartment: seru…
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