Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae040
Eric J Roseen, David T McNaughton, Stephanie Harrison, Aron S Downie, Cecilie K Øverås, Casper G Nim, Hazel J Jenkins, James J Young, Jan Hartvigsen, Katie L Stone, Kristine E Ensrud, Soomi Lee, Peggy M Cawthon, Howard A Fink
{"title":"Association of back pain with all-cause and cause-specific mortality among older men: a cohort study.","authors":"Eric J Roseen, David T McNaughton, Stephanie Harrison, Aron S Downie, Cecilie K Øverås, Casper G Nim, Hazel J Jenkins, James J Young, Jan Hartvigsen, Katie L Stone, Kristine E Ensrud, Soomi Lee, Peggy M Cawthon, Howard A Fink","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae040","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pm/pnae040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We evaluated whether more severe back pain phenotypes-persistent, frequent, or disabling back pain-are associated with higher mortality rate among older men.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this secondary analysis of a prospective cohort, the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) study, we evaluated mortality rates by back pain phenotype among 5215 older community-dwelling men (mean age, 73 years, SD = 5.6) from 6 sites in the United States. The primary back pain measure used baseline and Year 5 back pain questionnaire data to characterize participants as having no back pain, nonpersistent back pain, infrequent persistent back pain, or frequent persistent back pain. Secondary measures of back pain from the Year 5 questionnaire included disabling back pain phenotypes. The main outcomes measured were all-cause and cause-specific death.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After the Year 5 exam, during up to 18 years of follow-up (mean follow-up = 10.3 years), there were 3513 deaths (1218 cardiovascular, 764 cancer, 1531 other). A higher proportion of men with frequent persistent back pain versus no back pain died (78% versus 69%; sociodemographic-adjusted HR = 1.27, 95% CI = 1.11-1.45). No association was evident after further adjustment for health-related factors, such as self-reported general health and comorbid chronic health conditions (fully adjusted HR = 1.00; 95% CI = 0.86-1.15). Results were similar for cardiovascular deaths and other deaths, but we observed no association of back pain with cancer deaths. Secondary back pain measures, including back-related disability, were associated with increased mortality risk that remained statistically significant in fully adjusted models.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although frequent persistent back pain was not independently associated with risk of death in older men, additional secondary disabling back pain phenotypes were independently associated with increased mortality rate. Future investigations should evaluate whether improvements in disabling back pain affect general health and well-being or risk of death.</p>","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11292054/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140915944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae027
Deborah R Levy, Kirsha S Gordon, Lori A Bastian, Cynthia Brandt, Craig Gunderson
{"title":"Patterns of gabapentin prescription and of hospitalization in a national cohort of US Veterans.","authors":"Deborah R Levy, Kirsha S Gordon, Lori A Bastian, Cynthia Brandt, Craig Gunderson","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae027","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pm/pnae027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae045
{"title":"Corrigendum to: Comparative-effectiveness study evaluating outcomes for transforaminal epidural steroid injections performed with 3% hypertonic saline or normal saline in lumbosacral radicular pain.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae045","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pm/pnae045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141432516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae020
Leon S Moskatel, Anna Graber-Naidich, Zihuai He, Niushen Zhang
{"title":"Long-term persistence to onabotulinumtoxinA to prevent chronic migraine: results from 11 years of patient data from a tertiary headache center.","authors":"Leon S Moskatel, Anna Graber-Naidich, Zihuai He, Niushen Zhang","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae020","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pm/pnae020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine if patients with chronic migraine continue onabotulinumtoxinA (onabotA) long-term.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We performed a retrospective cohort analysis using aggregated, de-identified patient data from the Stanford Headache Center. We included patients in California who received at least one prescription for onabotA during the years of 2011-2021. The primary outcome was the number of onabotA treatments each patient received. Secondary outcomes included sex, age, race, ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), distance to the treatment facility, and zip code income quartile.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1551 patients received a mean of 7.60 ± 7.26 treatments and a median of 5 treatments, with 16.2% of patients receiving only one treatment and 10.6% receiving at least 19. Time-to-event survival analysis suggested 26.0% of patients would complete at least 29 treatments if able. Younger age and female sex were associated with statistically significant differences between quartile groups of number of onabotA treatments (P = .007, P = .015). BMI, distance to treatment facility, and zip code income quartile were not statistically significantly different between quartile groups (P > .500 for all). Prescriptions of both triptans and non-onabotA preventive medications showed a statistically significant increase with each higher quartile of number of onabotA treatments (P < .001; P < .001).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>We show long-term persistence to onabotA is high and that distance to treatment facility and income are not factors in continuation. Our work also demonstrates that as patients continue onabotA over time, there may be an increased need for adjunctive or alternative treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140189966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae058
{"title":"Corrigendum to: The Prevalence of Non-Cancer Pain Diagnoses in Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae058","DOIUrl":"10.1093/pm/pnae058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141545135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-07-30DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae068
Katherine McDermott, Christina Rush, Tony Pham, Julia Hooker, Courtney Louis, Elizabeth A Rochon, Ana-Maria Vranceanu
{"title":"PTSD symptoms, pain catastrophizing, and pain outcomes after acute orthopedic injury.","authors":"Katherine McDermott, Christina Rush, Tony Pham, Julia Hooker, Courtney Louis, Elizabeth A Rochon, Ana-Maria Vranceanu","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnae068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>PTSD is associated with greater incidence of chronic pain. Pain catastrophizing often accounts for this association. Less is known about these relationships during the acute phase (1-2 months) following orthopedic traumatic injuries. We sought to understand which orthopedic traumatic injury-related PTSD symptoms were associated with acute pain and physical dysfunction and whether pain catastrophizing accounted for these associations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This secondary analysis uses baseline data from a multisite randomized controlled trial of an intervention for individuals with heightened pain catastrophizing or pain anxiety following acute orthopedic injury. We used partial correlations to examine associations between PTSD symptom clusters (re-experiencing, avoidance, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and hyperarousal) and pain outcomes (pain intensity and physical dysfunction) controlling for pain catastrophizing. We used hierarchical regressions to evaluate unique associations between PTSD clusters and pain outcomes. In exploratory analysis, we examined the indirect effects of PTSD symptoms on pain outcomes through catastrophizing.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Hierarchical linear regressions indicated that hyperarousal was uniquely associated with greater pain intensity with activity (β = 0.39, p < 0.001, ΔR2 =0.06) and physical dysfunction (β = 0.22, p = 0.04 ΔR2 =0.02). PTSD symptoms were still associated with pain with activity even with pain catastrophizing included in the models, and catastrophizing did not have a significant indirect effect on the relationship between PTSD and physical dysfunction (b=0.06, SEBoot=0.04, 95% CIBoot = [-0.003, 0.14]). Pain catastrophizing did largely account for the association between re-experiencing, avoidance, and negative alterations in cognitions and mood symptoms and pain at rest.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Pain catastrophizing interventions may be best suited for limiting the impact of PTSD symptoms on pain at rest, but catastrophizing alone may not fully explain the relationship between PTSD symptoms and physical dysfunction after acute orthopedic injury. To prevent the negative association of PTSD symptoms, especially hyperarousal, on physical outcomes in acute pain populations, interventions may require more than solely targeting pain catastrophizing.</p>","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141856171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae066
Shawn Shoham, Jarna R Shah
{"title":"Novel Use of Botulinum Toxin A in Celiac Plexus Block for Management of Chronic Focal Abdominal Pain.","authors":"Shawn Shoham, Jarna R Shah","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnae066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141760244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-07-18DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae064
Katherine Selman, Sarah Perelman, Caroline Blatcher, David Fett, Amanda Adams, Brian Roberts
{"title":"Buprenorphine for acute pain in older adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis.","authors":"Katherine Selman, Sarah Perelman, Caroline Blatcher, David Fett, Amanda Adams, Brian Roberts","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnae064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Buprenorphine, a partial opioid agonist, has emerging evidence as an alternative to full agonist opioids for treatment of acute pain. This systematic review aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of buprenorphine for acute pain in older adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>PubMed Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINHAL, Web of Science database, and Google Scholar were searched. We included articles that reported buprenorphine as an intervention to treat acute pain among patients 60 years or older. Primary outcome was difference in pain scores for patients treated with buprenorphine compared to other analgesia. Secondary outcomes included adverse events, opioid consumption, and patient satisfaction. Meta-analysis was conducted on difference in pain scores and differences in nausea and vomiting.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-two studies were included (n = 2610). Buprenorphine was administered as nerve blocks in six studies, transdermal in eight, intravenous or intramuscular in five, sublingual in two studies, and both intravenous and sublingual in one study. 10 out of 20 (50%) studies found improved pain control in buprenorphine groups. Meta-analysis found no significant difference in pain scores between buprenorphine and control analgesia at 24 hours (Cohen's d = -0.29 [95% CI -0.85 to 0.27]) and 7 days (Cohen's d = -0.89 [95% CI -2.66-0.88]). Six studies (54.5%) found reduced opioid consumption in patients receiving buprenorphine. There was no difference in adverse effects in most studies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This review did not find buprenorphine to be superior to alternative analgesia; however the mixed results provide scientific rationale for future studies testing buprenorphine in older populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae061
Taylor Butler, Brooke Lochridge, Karen Hande, Lauren Poe, Amanda Cass, Thomas J Reese
{"title":"Tapering Opioids in Patients with Persistent Pain After Cancer Treatment.","authors":"Taylor Butler, Brooke Lochridge, Karen Hande, Lauren Poe, Amanda Cass, Thomas J Reese","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnae061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141620609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pain MedicinePub Date : 2024-07-04DOI: 10.1093/pm/pnae053
Valton Costa, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Anna Carolyna Gianlorenço, Felipe Fregni
{"title":"Neuropsychiatric drugs and a neurophysiological marker as predictors of health-related quality of life in patients with phantom limb pain.","authors":"Valton Costa, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Anna Carolyna Gianlorenço, Felipe Fregni","doi":"10.1093/pm/pnae053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnae053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore the relationship between sociodemographic, clinical, and neurophysiological variables and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) of patients with phantom limb pain.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a cross-sectional analysis of a previous clinical trial. Univariate and multivariate linear and logistic regression analyses were used to model the predictors of HR-QOL. We utilized a sequential modeling approach with increasing adjustment levels, controlling for age and sex, and other relevant clinical variables (time since amputation, level of amputation, and pain). HR-QOL was assessed by the SF-36 Health Survey and its eight subdomains.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We analyzed baseline data from 92 patients with lower-limb amputations. They were mostly male (63%), 45.2 ± 15.6 years, with a mean time since amputation of 82.7 ± 122.4 months, and an overall SF-36 score of 55.9 ± 21.5. We found an association between intracortical facilitation in the affected hemisphere (ICF), gabapentin usage, and HR-QOL. ICF is a predictor of better HRQOL, whereas gabapentin usage was associated with a poorer HR-QOL, with the main model explaining 13.4% of the variance in the outcome. For the SF-36 subdomains, ICF was also a positive predictor for social functioning, bodily pain, and vitality, while medication usage was associated with lower scores in mental health, general health perception, bodily pain, and vitality.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We found firsthand two new independent predictors of HR-QOL in individuals with PLP, namely, the neurophysiological metric ICF and gabapentin usage. These results highlight the role of the motor cortex excitability in the HR-QOL and stress the need for treatments that favor the neuroplastic adaptation after amputation, for which ICF may be used as a possible marker.</p>","PeriodicalId":19744,"journal":{"name":"Pain Medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141535052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}