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Symbaluk, Diane G.

Fall 2021

Ahrari, Malema

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...

Fall 2023

Friedman, Timothy N.

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...

Spring 2021

Dworsky-Fried, Zoë

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....

Fall 2010

Lock, Rebecca Ann

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?...

Fall 2024

Wass, Adam C

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...

Fall 2020

Froentjes, Liesbeth

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...

Spring 2023

Danyluk, Hayden J.

Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) is a chronic, neuropathic, facial pain condition characterized by severe unilateral pain attacks, electric shock-like or shooting in character, confined to regions of the face innervated by the trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve, CNV). TN is commonly associated...

Fall 2010

Ferrari, Robert

Introduction: Little is known about the effect of beliefs on whiplash-associated disorders. Objective: To assess population beliefs regarding whiplash injury, to assess expectation as a predictor of recovery; to explore symptom attribution (Study III); and, assess the relationship between the...

Fall 2024

Kim, Andrew M

With many communities affected by the opioid crisis, it has become of paramount importance to explore methods of pain management outside of treatments with opioids. One alternative treatment that has seen a recent surge in interest is cannabis and its related phytochemical-based treatments....