Glucosamine appears to provide little benefit for chronic low-back pain
Even though it is widely used as a therapy for low back pain, a randomized controlled trial finds that patients with chronic low-back pain and degenerative lumbar osteoarthritis who took glucosamine for six months showed little difference on measures of pain-related disability, low back and leg pain and health-related quality of life, compared to patients who received placebo, according to a new ...

Competitive Technologies' Calmare(R) Pain Therapy Device Treating Patients at Commonwealth Pain Specialists
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Competitive Technologies, Inc. announced today that Commonwealth Pain Specialists, the premier pain management center in Richmond and Central Virginia, is treating patients suffering from chronic, intense neuropathic pain using CTT's Calmare Pain Therapy medical device.

Severe Chronic Pain -- Life Threatening?
New evidence summarized in the Chronic Pain Letter, by Dr. Michael R. MacDonald.

Intrinsic brain connectivity in fibromyalgia associated with chronic pain intensity
A recent study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Michigan provides the first direct evidence of linkage between elevated intrinsic (resting-state) brain connectivity and spontaneous pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). This research shows an interaction of multiple brain networks, offering greater understanding of how pain arises. Details of the ...

Study Explores Links Between Obesity and Chronic Pain
Title: Study Explores Links Between Obesity and Chronic Pain Category: Health News Created: 7/26/2010 12:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 7/27/2010

Addressing Low Back Pain From The Ground Up
Almost every triathlete has experienced back pain at one time or another. Whether it is a chronic ache in the neck following a long ride, tightness between the shoulder blades with swimming or sharp pain in the low back during a run, pain inhibits our training, limits our performance and frustrates usand probably any family [...]

Neuropathic Pain Drug and Device Pipeline is Focus of MedPredicts New Report
Significant unmet needs remain in pain management drug and device developers seek to identify mechanisms to maintain efficacy while reducing side effects and risk of opioid dependence.

Agent: Pain management picked over hip surgery for Umenyiora
New York Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora's chronic hip pain could require surgery, the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., reported Tuesday, but the veteran will hold off on it for now.

Dealing With Chronic Pain
How symptoms speak

Transforaminal steroid injection for lumbar radicular pain proves superior to placebo
( Wiley-Blackwell ) A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation. Full details of the study appear in the August issue of Pain Medicine, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Faculty of Pain Medicine of ...