Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain is a Nervous System Disorder… Now What?

Is Hemorrhagic Demyelinating Lesions of Central Nervous System a Spectrum?

Comparing the co morbidity of psychological disorder among women and men with chronic musculoskeletal pain

Introduction: Chronic pain is one of the most common reasons for referring to elderly medical centers. About 20 -25 percent of patients with chronic pain experience significant psychological symptoms. The current study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, anxiety in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain referred to pain clinic of Imam Hossein hospital. Methods: In ...

Sympathetic nervous system in chronic joint pain.

pain Sir: We read with interest the recent review by Dr Kidd and colleagues on the role of the sympathetic nervous system in chronic joint pain and inflammation.' The authors suggest, on the one hand, a continued influence of the sympathetic nervous system on the inflammatory synovium while, on the other hand, they postulate that nerve fibres are destroyed in the synovial membrane in chronic rh...

Chronic Musculoskeletal Conditions and Neuroplasticity in the Central Nervous System

Background: Musculoskeletal rehabilitative care and research have traditionally been guided by a structural pathology paradigm and directed their resources towards the structural, functional, and biological abnormalities located locally within the musculoskeletal system to understand and treat Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD). However the structural pathology model does not adequately explain ma...

Chronic pelvic pain: comorbidity between chronic musculoskeletal pain and vulvodynia.

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a common condition that has a major impact on the quality of life of both men and women. Male CPP is usually attributable to well-defined urogenital conditions (most frequently infectious/non infectious prostatic diseases) or musculoskeletal or bowel diseases, whereas the features of female CPP are much more complex and are of particular clinical and epidemiological...