July 2024

July 2024

Peer Reviewed Feature Articles

Headache and migraine

Medication overuse headache: less is MOH

Lakshini Gunasekera, Jason C. Ray, Richard Stark

Medication overuse headache (MOH) is a type of secondary headache disorder in which the excessive use of pain medications can lead to further headaches. GPs are in a prime position to identify MOH and prevent the condition from occurring through patient education and use of appropriate preventive therapy.

Peer Reviewed Regular Series

Perspective

How to lose your fear of the patient with pelvic pain and maybe change their life

Lauren Kite, Karen Chan

In this opinion piece, GPs are encouraged to treat the whole person with pelvic pain and not just the pelvis. This article offers ways to improve the patient’s experience and management of their pain.

Case Study

A man with an injury to the left ankle and persistent pain

Nicole Abdul, Laura Beddard, Andrew Wines, Clayton Thomas

Complex regional pain syndrome can result in ongoing, persistent pain following a lateral malleolus fracture. Urgent referral to a pain medicine specialist is essential to manage the physical injury, subsequent pain and psychological aspects.

Physician-authored summaries and commentary on the most important medical research, provided by the NEJM Group, a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Physician empathy is associated inversely with chronic pain outcomes

JAMA Netw Open

Chronic pain and its association with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neurodegeneration

Ann Neurol

Do cannabinoids have a role in managing fibromyalgia?

Mayo Clin Proc

Chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty

JAMA Netw Open