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Parents Give Back after Watching Daughter’s Struggle with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Staff | February 1, 2014

Diagnosis prompts Steve and Debbie Russell to support the Rheumatology Research Foundation

How to Manage Pain in Patients with Renal Insufficiency or End-Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis

Ruchika Harisingani, MD, Maha Saad, PharmD, CGP, BCPS, Manouchkathe Cassagnol, PharmD, CGP, BCPS | October 1, 2013

Narcotic and non-narcotic pain regimens can be used

Tech Talk: Contraption Reduces Pain of Rheumatic Therapy Injections

Thomas R. Collins | May 1, 2013

Innovative device called Buzzy applies high-frequency vibration sensation and cold to soothe sting of shots

Pain Treatment Will to Become More Targeted as Knowledge of Pain Mechanics Increases

Thomas R. Collins | March 21, 2013

The notion of pain as just a peripheral, or strictly stimulus-driven, phenomenon is over.

Pain Treatment Will to Become More Targeted as Knowledge of Pain Mechanics Increases Bad

Thomas R. Collins | March 18, 2013

The notion of pain as just a peripheral, or strictly stimulus-driven, phenomenon is over.

ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012: Children Experience Pain Differently from Adults

Thomas R. Collins | March 1, 2013

Experts say children in pain from rheumatic diseases or other causes may have more discomfort because they can’t downregulate the pain as effectively as adults

How to Evaluate Shoulder Pain

Nitin B. Jain, MD, MSPH | February 2, 2013

The common causes of shoulder pain and diagnostic tests that rheumatologists need to know

The ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting Provides Look Back at History of Rheumatology

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | November 1, 2012

The annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology and Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals’ (ACR/ARHP) provide an opportunity to rewind through the history of rheumatology, and spotlight the speciality’s future

Pain is a Tricky Thing to Treat, or Even Evaluate

Simon M. Helfgott, MD | March 8, 2012

Rheumatology is such a gratifying and emotionally rewarding medical specialty. There is no better feeling than helping patients with conditions whose proper diagnosis and management have eluded other practitioners. A patient with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) presents with pain, and a major clinical tenet of DISH has been its lack of association with pain.

Chronic Osteoarthritic Pain Causes Brain Changes

Kathleen Louden | January 13, 2012

Theory of condition-specific ‘brain signature’ sparks controversy