Background Chronic low back pain is the most prevalent chronic pain condition worldwide
and access to behavioral pain treatment is limited. Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive …

Abstract Objective/Background Prior work has not addressed sex differences in the
incidence of severe postoperative pain episodes. The goal of this study was to examine sex …

Background: Patients with chronic pain often have limited access to comprehensive care
that includes behavioral pain management strategies. Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive …

Background. In recent years, the field of acute pain medicine (APM) has witnessed a surge
in its development, and pain has begun to be recognized not merely as a symptom, but as …

The US Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task
Force initiated a public–private partnership which led to the publication of its report in 2019 …

Abstract Objective. The Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale (DVPRS 2.0) is a pain
assessment tool that utilizes a numerical rating scale enhanced by functional word …

Chronic pain is associated with maladaptive reorganization of the central nervous system.
Recent studies have suggested that disorganization of large-scale electrical brain activity …

Objective Effects of patient education on perioperative analgesic utilization are not well
defined. We designed a simple pain management educational card for total knee …

Background Consensus indicates that a comprehensive, multimodal, holistic approach is
foundational to the practice of acute pain medicine (APM), but lack of uniform, evidence …

Objectives: Patients' stays in the ICU are often characterized by prolonged immobility,
sedation, disrupted sleep, and extended periods of pain, which put ICU patients at greater …