MeSH tree: C23.550.767
The weeks leading up to a major surgery can be a time of uncertainty and worry for patients, many of whom anticipate the need for rehabilitation to get back on their feet. But if patients improve their physical and mental ...
Nov 12, 2025
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Anyone who has experienced chronic pain knows how debilitating it can be. Just ask Daniele Piomelli, Ph.D., who has dealt with pain twice in his life: once after a minor surgery, and again with a bad bout of back pain that ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Botulinum toxin injections provide greater short-term relief for phantom limb pain than standard medical and surgical care among Ukrainian war amputees, reports a new study led by Northwestern Medicine and Ukrainian physicians.
Oct 21, 2025
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Endovascular aneurysm repair is a minimally invasive technique for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms—life-threatening bulges in the aorta's abdominal section. However, it carries the risk of recurrence owing to ...
Oct 15, 2025
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New mothers are more likely to experience severe pain that disrupts sleep and activities of daily living, as well as develop sleep disorders, if they give birth by cesarean delivery (C-section), suggests research presented ...
Oct 12, 2025
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Hospitals with the widest difference between the cost of their services and what they charge patients and their insurance carriers are mostly for-profit, investor-owned and located in large metropolitan areas. They also have ...
Sep 24, 2025
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A University of Alberta-led team has identified a new way to treat post-surgical pain in animals and human cells, in a bid to find non-addictive treatments for acute and even chronic pain.
Aug 28, 2025
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Inside every human brain lies a detailed map of the body, with different regions dedicated to different body parts—the hands, lips, feet and more. But what happens to this map when a body part is removed?
Aug 27, 2025
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The brain holds a "map" of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it rearranges itself to compensate for the loss, according to new research from scientists ...
Aug 21, 2025
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Women ages 65 and older—including women in their 90s—can safely leave the hospital on the same day as having a mastectomy for breast cancer and are unlikely to suffer post-surgical complications, according to a new pilot ...
Aug 7, 2025
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