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Are Winter TV Habits Causing Your Back Pain Asks Derby Chiropractor?

By shervin | Published: December 5, 2010

OK so its that time of year again where my most hated TV programme is on – X-Factor and the British public is preparing for a winter of watching TV during the.

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Ipsilateral atrophy of paraspinal and psoas muscle in unilateral back pain patients with monosegmental degenerative disc disease.

By shervin | Published: November 15, 2010

Conclusion: In patients with long-standing unilateral back pain due to monosegmental degenerative disc disease, selective multifidus, erector spinae, quadratus lumborum and psoas atrophy develops on the symptomatic side.

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Referrals from a primary care-based sports medicine department to an orthopaedic department: a retrospective cohort study.

By admin | Published: October 18, 2010

Conclusions Very few patients with musculoskeletal pathology were referred by a primary care-based sports medicine clinic to an orthopaedics clinic. Of the referred patients, sports medicine physicians and orthopaedists frequently agreed on the need for surgery. Expansion of a primary care-based sports medicine service could help relieve overburdened orthopaedics departments of patients with conditions not requiring surgery

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Effects of capsazepine, a transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1 antagonist, on morphine-induced antinociception, tolerance, and dependence in…

By jorge | Published: October 14, 2010

Conclusions Our results suggest that TRPV1 antagonists can be used adjunctively to morphine treatment because they strengthen morphine antinociception and prevent the development of tolerance, and also physical dependence, on morphine. (Source: British Journal of Anaesthesia)

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Spinal or systemic TY005, a peptidic opioid agonist/neurokinin 1 antagonist, attenuates pain with reduced tolerance

By admin | Published: October 8, 2010

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE (Source: British Journal of Pharmacology)

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Publishing your science paper is only half the job | David Dobbs

By melissa | Published: September 22, 2010

Scientists should be keen to get out of the lab and explain their findings to a wider publicDavid Dobbs blogs at WiredPerhaps the oddest and least predictable scientific conference I attend is ScienceOnline, a version of which met earlier this month at the British Library. That event, ScienceOnline London, or SOLO, is a spinoff of the original ScienceOnline held every January in the United States

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Utilisation of acupuncture at an academic medical centre.

By melissa | Published: September 21, 2010

CONCLUSION: The results indicate that pain is the most common reason for use of acupuncture in an academic medical centre and that women use acupuncture more than men. This is one of the few reports of clinical use of acupuncture at academic medical centres in the USA. PMID: 20861401 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society)

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Development and longitudinal validation of the overall benefit of analgesia score: a simple multi-dimensional quality assessment instrument

By shervin | Published: September 13, 2010

Conclusions The OBAS is a simple, multi-dimensional quality assessment instrument to measure patients’ benefit from postoperative pain therapy. Opioid symptom distress, pain relief, and patients’ satisfaction are combined in a reliable and valid tool

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Adherence, preference, and satisfaction of postmenopausal women taking denosumab or alendronate

By melissa | Published: September 9, 2010

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Sugar won’t quell infants’ pain: study

By admin | Published: September 3, 2010

Giving sugar to infants to ease their pain after a blood test may change their facial expressions but not necessarily the pain signals in the brain or spinal cord, a new British study suggests. (Source: CBC | Health)

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