The lead researcher on a new study about pain treatment found that the presence and level of severity of pain symptom clusters affects treatment, Pain Medicine News reported.
David Fishbain, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and adjunct professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, and co-investigators looked at 14 different symptoms in four different groups: community patients with pain, acute pain patients, chronic pain patients and non-pain patients in the community.
All three groups of pain patients had a greater incidence of the symptoms than non-pain patients. Chronic pain patients had the highest incidence, and patients with chronic pain in the community had similar results to acute pain patients.
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David Fishbain, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and adjunct professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, and co-investigators looked at 14 different symptoms in four different groups: community patients with pain, acute pain patients, chronic pain patients and non-pain patients in the community.
All three groups of pain patients had a greater incidence of the symptoms than non-pain patients. Chronic pain patients had the highest incidence, and patients with chronic pain in the community had similar results to acute pain patients.
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