Publications by authors named "M Bedder"
Introduction: Chronic pain is a personal experience influenced by multiple biopsychosocial factors. Using a pain intensity measure alone to assess the effectiveness of a chronic pain intervention fails to fully evaluate its impact on the multifaceted chronic pain experience. The holistic minimal clinically important difference (MCID) is a composite outcome developed to provide a comprehensive assessment of chronic pain in response to intervention, across 5 outcome domains: pain intensity, health-related quality of life, sleep quality, physical, and emotional function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Many of the current treatments for chronic neuropathic pain have variable effectiveness and known side effects. Given the prevalence of this type of intractable pain (3-17% of general population), additional therapeutic non-invasive approaches are desired. Magnetic Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (mPNS) delivered at 0.
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- * The SWEET Guideline was created by international experts to offer evidence-based recommendations for safely treating patients with PDN.
- * A thorough review of available research led to the development of this guideline, which categorizes various treatments based on effectiveness and safety according to established criteria.
Background: Over 109,000 people in the USA died from a drug overdose in 2022. More alarming is the amount of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (SOOM), primarily fentanyl. From 2015 to 2020, the number of drug overdose deaths from SOOM increased 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess magnetic peripheral nerve stimulation (mPNS) for the treatment of chronic or chronic and intractable neuropathic pain with a retrospective review case series.
Patients And Methods: Twenty-four patients with predominantly neuropathic post-traumatic or postoperative pain were treated as per protocol and followed for 3 months.
Results: Data were analyzed as an observational, one-armed, convenience sample.