Background A crisis in pain management persists, as does the epidemic of opioid overdose
deaths, addiction, and diversion. Pain medicine is meeting these challenges by returning to …

Objectives Emerging evidence indicates that tendon disease is an active process with
inflammation that is critical to disease onset and progression. However, the key cytokines …

Medical pain management is in crisis; from the pervasiveness of pain to inadequate pain
treatment, from the escalation of prescription opioids to an epidemic in addiction, diversion …

Background Musculoskeletal rehabilitative care and research have traditionally been guided
by a structural pathology paradigm and directed their resources towards the structural …

Background We examined the relationship of musculoskeletal risk factors underlying force
and repetition on tissue responses in an operant rat model of repetitive reaching and pulling …

Upper extremity muscle fatigue is challenging to identify during industrial tasks and places
changing demands on the shoulder complex that are not fully understood. The purpose of …

One of the great mysteries in dystonia pathophysiology is the role of environmental factors in
disease onset and development. Progress has been made in defining the genetic …

The intact nervous system has an exquisite ability to modulate the activity of multiple
muscles acting at one or more joints to produce an enormous range of actions. Seemingly …

Pain is complex. It is no longer acceptable to consider pain solely as a peripheral
phenomenon involving activation of nociceptive neurons. The contemporary understanding …

We examined the relationship between grip strength declines and muscle-tendon responses
induced by long-term performance of a high-repetition, low-force (HRLF) reaching task in …