According to a large-scale observational study published in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, patients who received frequent gabapentin prescriptions were significantly more likely to ...

Researchers pored over records of 26,400 patients who had been prescribed gabapentin for persistent low back pain between 2004 and 2024 and 26,400 patients who didn’t get a prescription.

Risk of dementia following gabapentin prescription in chronic low back pain patients Go to source). Dementia Dementia has become a very big concern as we have an aging population across the world.

Pain is an underdiagnosed and undertreated problem in people with dementia, especially if they are in an advanced stage of the disease that prevents them from being able to communicate effectively ...

Examining anonymous records of adult patients, the team looked at groups who had been prescribed gabapentin for chronic lower back pain between 2004 and 2024 and compared them to people who hadn ...

Up to 80% of dementia patients living in nursing homes also experience pain, but many struggle to communicate their symptoms. A new, $2.1 million study aims to test recently revised guidelines for ...

A tool that was once used to examine the intensity and frequency of pain in dementia patients following their death has been revamped to help skilled nursing facilities deliver palliative care to ...

Nursing home residents with dementia appear to be less likely to receive pain medication than other residents, even though they have just as many painful health conditions, a new study suggests.

Related: Massive Study Links 15 Factors to Early Dementia Risk The increase was higher among patients aged between 35 and 49, and also rose with the number of prescriptions given, the researchers ...

Alongside the number of prescriptions associated with dementia and MCI risks, they found diagnoses occurred within 10 years of patients' initial pain diagnosis. When looking at age, 18 to 64 year ...

Perspectives > Second Opinions Pain Doesn't Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10 — The real answer is long, complicated, and not measurable in this one-dimensional way by Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, KFF ...

As a young doctor joining the “pain revolution,” I probably asked patients thousands of times to rate their pain on a scale of zero to 10 and wrote many scripts each week for pain medication ...