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Articles tagged with "Pain"

Isometric Exercise May Immediately Reduce Pain of Patellar Tendinopathy

Rob Goodier  |  

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Volleyball players with patellar tendinopathy reported an immediate easing of their pain after isometric exercise, and the effect persisted for 45 minutes after the intervention, a new study has found. In contrast, isotonic exercise appeared to diminish the athletes’ pain to a lesser degree, and the effect did not last at the…

Melioidosis: What Rheumatologists Need to Know

G.C. Yathish, MD, Taral Parikh, MD, Parikshit Sagdeo, MD, Balakrishnan Canchi, MD, and Gurmeet Mangat, MD  |  

Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is endemic in Southeast Asia and northern Australia.1 In recent years, the incidence of melioidosis has increased worldwide. Septic arthritis is a rare, but well-recognized, manifestation of melioidosis. Case Report A 49-year-old woman with known diabetes was admitted elsewhere with uncontrolled diabetes and fever. She was found to…

fMRI Provides Visual Evidence of Pain

Ann-Marie Lindstrom  |  

Functional MRI scans that show how pain changes the brain could help rheumatologists develop better approaches to pain relief