Fibromyalgia/Pain
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9 months 3 weeks ago
Michaud et al. RA patients with long COVID had more fibromyalgia pre-COVID (41% vs 13%), higher rates of pain, depression, and worse PROs pre-COVID. Authors suggest long COVID may partially reflect pre-existing illness Abstr#1629 #ACR23 #ACRbest @RheumNow https://t.co/mrcGWrSD6c https://t.co/YiGCbvBDtn
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9 months 3 weeks ago
Can US differentiate pain? In #ACR23 Abs. #1388 PsA pts who have pain & inflammatory enthesitis on US, process pain differently than the US negative patients, despite the induction of pain or discomfort on all groups. Interesting finding. https://t.co/YcccLoQCBj @rheumnow https://t.co/o94bMwndxX
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9 months 3 weeks ago
Patient perspective: PP09 at #ACR23
"Mindfulness helps me experience less suffering over pain" in patient with PsA + fibromyalgia.
⭐️Consider recommending mindfulness training such as mindfulness based stress reduction
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9 months 3 weeks ago
Lots of our patients taking CBD products, and they won’t always tell us…
but if you don’t ask, you’ll miss the drug-drug interaction that affects the meds we rely on.
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9 months 3 weeks ago
BKZ tx resulted in sustained improvements in pt‑reported pain and fatigue from Wk 16 - 52 in bDMARD-naïve and TNFi-IR pts w/ active PsA, w/ clinically meaningful improvements observed in >50% of pts in BE-OPTIMAL & BE-COMPLETE #ACR23 Abs 0527 https://t.co/AQKYUubKLl @rheumnow https://t.co/WsXlhENzL1
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9 months 3 weeks ago
Join us tonight at 6pm PT/ 9pm ET for our daily #ACR23 recap. https://t.co/0RDwTdzhwS
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9 months 3 weeks ago
Different plant products
We need more RCTs
Cohort studies have a lot of attrition
Survey data shows increased utilization
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