The pain and pleasure were, strictly speaking, purely hypothetical. They were measured both on numerical scales (from 0 to 10, where 10 is the “worst pain imaginable”) and with qualitative ...

Perioperative posterior cervical muscle plane block decreased numerical pain rating scores vs anesthesia alone in posterior cervical spine surgery.

NRS also showed higher reproducibility when measuring pain exacerbations (Cohen's K of 0.86 for NRS vs. 0.53 for VRS) while the reproducibility of the two scales was similar in evaluating ...

According to published results, a novel opioid-free pathway may provide noninferior pain management compared with an opioid-containing pathway during the perioperative period in patients undergoing ...

The following is a summary of “Systematic review and meta-analysis of conventional medical management in a patient population ...

The encouraging result comes just days after the US FDA approved Vertex Pharma's non-opioid painkiller Journavx (suzetrigine) ...

Recovering from surgery can be a challenging experience, but a simple and enjoyable activity—listening to music—may help ...

The greenlight for Journavx (suzetrigine), which comes on the heels of a $7.4 billion opioid settlement, could spark momentum ...

Pain assessment tools included the Numerical Pain Rating Scale, Work Productivity and Activity Impairment questionnaire, and the Patient Global Impression of Change. Out of 39,400 screened patients, ...

(VAS): Visual Analogue Scale; (NRS): Numerical Rating Scale; (VRS): Verbal Rating Scales; (BP-EP): Breakthrough or intense Episodic Pain; (CI): Confidence Interval. CB participated in the design ...