Military veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder: results from a chronic pain management programme.

Background And Aims: There is very little published evaluation of the treatment of military veterans with chronic pain, with or without post-traumatic stress disorder. Few clinical services offer integrated treatment for veterans with chronic pain and PTSD. Such veterans experience difficulty in accessing treatment for either condition: services may consider each condition as a contraindication to treatment of the other.

Trigger Point Manual Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Noncancer Pain in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of trigger point manual therapy (TPMT) for reducing chronic noncancer pain and associated problems in adults, by analyzing all relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

Data Sources: We searched databases and clinical trials registers from their inception to May 2017.

Study Selection: We included RCTs in any language that recruited patients older than 18, with pain of 3 months' duration or more.

Male chronic pelvic pain syndrome and the role of interdisciplinary pain management.

Introduction: This paper is a team collaboration which aims to describe the multidisciplinary chronic pelvic pain (CPP) service for men in a major London teaching hospital.

Method: Evidence from the European Association for Urology Guidelines and the small pool of relevant psychological literature is reviewed as well as results from our pelvic pain programme (LINK) in association with a description of the programme.

Results: Treatment targets for men with CPP are outlined.