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Many different strategies have been used to overcome barriers to pain management. One such strategy is improving nurses’ knowledge through the Pain Resource Nurse (PRN) [...]

Across the US 15% of adults report recent use of marijuana. Such non-prescribed drug use may impact fracture care and multi-modal pain strategies, but we have little esti [...]

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are two of the most prevalent procedures performed on the aging population. The invasive nature of these pr [...]

While historically, opioids have been used broadly to manage severe acute postoperative pain, recent studies have shown that patients are frequently prescribed opioids ei [...]

Needle procedures, like immunizations and phlebotomy, are very common in outpatient settings that provide care to the pediatric population. Though much is known about the [...]

The descending pain modulatory pathway exerts bidirectional control of ongoing nociceptive inputs traveling from the body to the brain. Despite a large body of work impli [...]

Postoperative pain poses a significant challenge for patients undergoing ambulatory orthopedic surgery with 30% of patients reporting moderate to severe pain. Regional an [...]

The use of multimodal analgesia is preferred over single-agent analgesia for postoperative pain management due to synergistic modulations of pain pathways. The two most c [...]