injections
How to Continue Pain Care Within a Contrast Shortage
Iohexol is in short supply. So, how do you continue pain procedures if you don’t have steady availability of ...
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Only Short-Term Difference Seen in Knee OA Injections
An intramuscular (IM) glucocorticoid injection for reducing knee pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis in ...
AUGUST 26, 2022
Novel Nonopioid Injection Provides Effective Post-op Analgesia in TKA
The nonopioid therapeutic agent vocacapsaicin offers clinically meaningful and durable analgesia in patients ...
DECEMBER 20, 2021
FDA Approves Higher Dose of Naloxone
The FDA has approved Zimhi, a single-dose, prefilled syringe, as another option to treat opioid overdose.
OCTOBER 20, 2021
ON PAIN: Steroid Injections in the Time of COVID-19
In an abundance of caution, providers are now being told to space out neuraxial steroid injections when patients ...
AUGUST 23, 2021
ON PAIN: Pandemic Forces Health Care to Reconsider Pain’s ‘Elective’ Status
When much of the country shut down in March 2020, an overwhelming majority of pain medicine practitioners did, ...
JULY 26, 2021
Review Explores Risks, Benefits of Gadolinium as Interventional Procedure Contrast Agent
A new evidence-based position statement warns of the risks of interventional pain procedures involving ...
JULY 13, 2021
No Evidence of Negative Interaction Between COVID-19 Vaccinations, Neuraxial Injections, Experts Say
Should neuraxial steroid injections be performed in proximity to COVID-19 vaccinations?
JUNE 7, 2021
Steroid Injection Therapy Does Not Compromise COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, New Guideline Suggests
The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience issued a new set of recommendations on the use of steroid injections ...
JUNE 7, 2021
Interventional Pain Procedures Can Reduce Office Visits, May Increase Functionality
Patients who did not receive interventional pain procedures at an office clinic subsequently had 37% more office ...
APRIL 5, 2021
Interventional Pain Physicians Ponder How to Treat Pain in Post-COVID World
As pain care providers strive to reorient their practices to tackle the ongoing global pandemic’s unique ...
MARCH 11, 2021
For First Time, Botulinum Toxin Injections Found to Improve Quality of Life in Migraine Patients
A new meta-analysis found for the first time that use of botulinum toxin type A injections provided quality-of-life ...
JANUARY 9, 2019