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Nonmedical Use of Opioids Following Short Term Therapeutic Exposure in Children and Youth: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Study of Decision Maker Information Needs
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Introduction Healthcare visits, hospitalizations, and deaths due to opioid-related harms continue to rise for children, despite an overall decline in opioid prescriptions. Decision-makers (including patients, families, clinicians, and policy-makers) require high quality syntheses to inform...
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Fall 2023
The overarching idea of this thesis stemmed from previous work in our lab, where it was noticed that females and males exhibited different disease trajectories in a model of Multiple Sclerosis. Combined with our observation of different outcome metrics for peripheral nociception suggested that...
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Pain and analgesia in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis: Contribution of the central nucleus of the amygdala
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation, degeneration and demyelinating lesions within the central nervous system. Chronic pain is a highly prevalent symptom associated with MS, affecting 50-80% of patients over the course of their disease....
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Pain, anxiety, and analgesics: A comparative study of elderly and younger surgical patients
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Grace, M., Wry, J., Oberle, K., Paul, P.
To determine if the post-operative experience of elderly and younger patients is different, data were collected from 41 elderly patients (65 years and older) and 249 younger patients (under 65 years). Pain and anxiety were assessed on days two and three post-operative. Anxiety was also measured...
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Fall 2010
This thesis examines how female athletes relate to and interpret their experiences of pain. Starting from the position that the meaning of pain is not given but is interpreted, this thesis takes as its central question: what compels athletes to interpret their pain in the ways that they do?...
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Fall 2024
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that is characterized by demyelination of central nervous system axons. Symptoms of MS are highly heterogenous, although some, such as motor deficits and chronic pain, are very common in those with the disease. Defined by the International...
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Short, Intermediate, and Long-Term Effects of Opioids on Pain Intensity in Patients with Osteoarthritis or Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Chronic opioid use is associated with the development of hyperalgesia, which may end up attenuating any analgesic benefits over long-term therapy. We wanted to determine whether the analgesic efficacy of opioids compared to control therapy for osteoarthritis and chronic lower back pain differed...