persistent pain

Knee pain common complaint in middle-aged and mature women

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 12/18/2011 - 23:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) New research shows 63 percent of women age 50 and older reported persistent, incident, or intermittent knee pain during a 12-year study period.

Predictors for persistent pain included higher body mass index, previous knee injury, and radiographic osteoarthritis.

Details of this longitudinal study are available in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology.

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Chronic Pain Common After Breast CA Surgery (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Surgery  Tue, 11/10/2009 - 14:00

Nearly half of breast cancer survivors are plagued by persistent pain years after cancer surgery, researchers found.

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AGS Foundation For Health In Aging Tip Sheet About Persistent Pa...

Medical News Today  Thu, 10/15/2009 - 04:00

The AGS Foundation for Health in Aging (FHA) Tip Sheet about persistent pain -- pain or discomfort that lasts for a long time, or comes and goes over the course of months or years -- is now available in Spanish translation.

The pain tips, initially released in May in English, are the first in a series of Spanish language tips, to become available by the FHA.

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