Miriam “Mimi” Pekarek, director of therapy with Ohio Living Breckenridge Village in Willoughby, knows pain. Pain has been her career, as a matter of fact: identifying it, assessing it, navigating it ...

A specialized pain management program for patients who underwent robotic surgery for urologic cancers resulted in just eight percent going home with narcotics after discharge, compared to 100 percent ...

Integrating evidence-based practices that include patient preference; patient, family, and staff satisfaction; pain control; patient safety; and cost into our care plans supports improved outcomes for ...

Surgeons at Houston Methodist Hospital are stemming the tide of addiction to prescription opioids by managing patients' pain after surgery. By using long-acting local anesthetics at the site of ...

Group and individual self-management training for chronic pain with a health educator helped to significantly improve physical and cognitive function among low-income patients, according to a study ...

A local program has been helping those with chronic pain to stop using opioids as treatment. More than a hundred people a year have worked with Nebraska Medicine to learn to get their lives back by ...

Pain is the most common reason to seek medical attention and chronic pain is the root cause of untold suffering, loss of income, and diminished quality of life. Proper evaluation and treatment ...

A novel behavioral pain management program reduced pain severity and pain-related functional interference in people living with HIV, according to a randomized clinical trial. The Skills to Manage Pain ...

MidMichigan Health is partnering with Michigan Medicine to bring a new Spine and Pain Program to the Great Lakes Bay Region. This program takes a functional and biomechanical approach to pain ...