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UTCSP Research Update April 5, 2026

🔹 Women with chronic pelvic pain can be stratified using multimodal assessment
Authors: Kevin Kuan
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41854293/

🔹 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and the Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Childhood
Authors: Sonia M. Grandi, Areti Angeliki Veroniki
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41062061/

🔹 "Identifying Social Factors that Stratify Health Opportunities and Outcomes (ISSHOOs) in pain research": explanation and elaboration to support the standardized reporting of equity-relevant data
Authors: Vina Mohabir
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41534591/

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UTCSP Research Update March 29, 2026

🔹 Analgesic efficacy of the ultrasound-guided pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for ambulatory hip arthroscopy: a randomized controlled double-blind trial
Authors: Laura Girón-Arango, Sinead Campbell, Juan Pablo Diaz-Martinez, Faraj Abdallah, Richard Brull
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41895809/

🔹 Severe orbital pain and preserved visual function in giant cell arteritis related optic perineuritis
Authors: E. Margolin, A. Handzic
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41880720/

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UTCSP Research Update March 22, 2026

🔹 Pain across time
Authors: Paul W. Frankland
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41855347/

🔹 Molecular architecture of human dermal sleeping nociceptors
Authors: Shreejoy Tripathy, Derek Howard
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41643676/

🔹 Neck Pain Is a Key Determinant of Health-Related Quality-of-Life Outcome in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
Authors: Karlo M. Pedro, Mohammed Ali Alvi, Christopher Lozano, Vishwathsen Karthikeyan, Jefferson R. Wilson, Jetan H. Badhiwala, Michael G. Fehlings
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41860228/

🔹 Why are clinical practice guidelines important in obstetric anaesthesia? Improving peripartum safety and quality of anaesthetic care through recommendations for labour pain
Authors: Ronald B. George
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41871684/

🔹 Pain Interference in Young Adults With Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries
Authors: Maya Benuzzi, Amanda Langleben, Lexi Davidson, Andrea Chan, Kristen Davidge, Emily S. Ho
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41854582/

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UTCSP Research Update March 15, 2026

🔹 "Knowing Otherwise": Unsettling Notions of Crisis Within Contexts of Chronic Pain and Poverty in the COVID-19 Era
Authors: Craig M. Dale, Abhimanyu Sud, Ross Upshur, Joel Katz, Andrew D. Pinto, Fiona Webster
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41801099/

🔹 Disability and Opioid Pain Reliever Use in Reproductive-Aged Women: An Analysis of a Canadian Cross-Sectional Survey
Authors: Chloe G. McKee, Hilary K. Brown, Andi Camden
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41804251/

🔹 Trigeminal ganglion–trigeminal spinal subnucleus oralis pathway contributes to orofacial neuropathic pain
Authors: Barry J. Sessle
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41800762/

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UTCSP Research Update March 8, 2026

🔹 Evaluation of a mental health screening tool to determine the need for psychological interview for patients offered neuromodulation implant therapies for pain
Authors: Anuj Bhatia, Maggie Z. X. Xiao, Kathryn Curtis, Abigail Muere, Victoria Bains, Yasmine Hoydonckx, Pranab Kumar, Ehtesham Baig, Abeer Alomari
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41781150/

🔹 Sucrose analgesia for venepuncture in neonates
Authors: Mariana Bueno
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41775338/

🔹 Safety of Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy: Review of Existing Evidence
Authors: Jonathan S. Zipursky
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41780800/

🔹 PAINscape—Exploring patient experiences with ketamine for chronic neuropathic pain: A qualitative study
Authors: Nandana Parakh, Paul Ritvo, Duminda N. Wijeysundera, Victoria Tucci, Mariela Leda, Mindy Lu, Gabriella Mattina, Janneth Pazmino-Canizares, Zaaria Thomas, Roshni Nayar, John G. Hanlon, Sérgio M. Pereira, Karim S. Ladha, Hance Clarke, Sakina J. Rizvi, Cheryl Pritlove, Akash Goel
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41798319/

🔹 The association between smoking and joint pain in women attending a specialized menopause clinic
Authors: Wendy Wolfman
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41774568/

🔹 Timing of intravenous dexamethasone and analgesia after brachial plexus block: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Authors: Anahi Perlas, Vincent Chan, Anthony James Short, Michael J. Busser, Ki-Jinn Chin, Jayanta Chowdhury, Ella Huszti, Qixuan Li
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39721764/

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UTCSP Research Update March 1, 2026

🔹 Patient Access to Opioids for Pain Management in Southeast Asia with a Focus on Timor-Leste: A Scoping Review
Authors: Clive Stevens, Alexandra Martiniuk
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41232627/

🔹 Spinal processing of spatiotemporally diverse tactile stimuli: Computational insights into allodynia and spinal cord stimulation
Authors: Laura Medlock, Steven A. Prescott
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41735055/

🔹 Access to interventional therapies for cancer pain: An exploratory survey of cancer pain experts
Authors: Anuj Bhatia
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41552768/

🔹 Chronic pain after decompression for degenerative cervical myelopathy: a pooled trajectory analysis of individual participant data
Authors: Alex B. Bak, Ali Moghaddamjou, Michael G. Fehlings
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41086299/

🔹 Tracking artificial intelligence use for publishing and reviewing in PAIN
Authors: Karen Deborah Davis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41670354/

🔹 Reliability and stability of pain ratings and secondary hyperalgesia to experimental phasic heat pain across multiple days and weeks
Authors: Nathaniel W. De Vera, Spencer S. Abssy, David A. Seminowicz, Massieh Moayedi
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41765342/

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UTCSP Research Update February 22, 2026

🔹 Appendectomy for Chronic Abdominal Pain Caused by Appendiceal Neuroma
Authors: Jordana Herblum, Erin Kennedy, Andrea Covelli, Laura Targownik
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41728252/

🔹 Low-Dose Ketamine Infusions for Postoperative Analgesia in Patients on Chronic Opioid Therapy in General Inpatient Units: Safety Signals and Monitoring Needs in a Retrospective Cohort
Authors: David Carrasco Guariento, Amir Dadashian, Maggie Xiao, Christopher Brown, Debashish Chowdhury, Naveed Siddiqui
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41706581/

🔹 Interventions in the Middle Meningeal Artery for Refractory Headache: The Need for a Randomized Trial
Authors: Jose Danilo Bengzon Diestro, Rodrigo F. Rodrigues, Nathan Churchill, Duminda Wijeysundera, Manav Vyas, Tom Schweizer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41698760/

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UTCSP Research Update February 15, 2026

🔹 Interictal burden, not ictal burden, drives work productivity impairment in headache disorders: insights from a Japanese cross-sectional study
Authors: Noboru Matsumoto
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41634554/

🔹 Associations of Cannabis and Tobacco Use with Suicide Attempt, Suicide Death, and Overdose Death Among Veterans Prescribed Opioid Analgesics
Authors: Peter C. Austin
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41692146/

🔹 Solace, a Therapeutic Conversational Agent for Management of Chronic Pain: Acceptability and Usability Study
Authors: P. Maxwell Slepian, Hance Clarke, Joel Katz, Stephanie Buryk-Iggers, Anna M. Lomanowska
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41711568/

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SEMINAR: Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury: Challenges and Management

The Faculty of Pharmacy is hosting: Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar to be held on THURSDAY, March 5, 2026, at 10:00 am in PB-850.

Seminar Presenter: Dr. Eva Widerstrom-Noga, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Principal Investigator of the Clinical Pain Research Laboratory of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

Seminar Title: Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury: Challenges and Management

Hosted by: Dr. Sara Guilcher

Dr. Widerstrom-Noga, DDS, PhD, is a Professor of Neurological Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine, and the Principal Investigator of the Clinical Pain Research Laboratory of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. Her work primarily concerns the extremely complex problem of persistent neuropathic pain after neurotrauma. Dr. Widerstrom-Noga’s educational background is in cross-disciplinary pain research (pain physiology and pain psychology) and in the clinical management of chronic pain.

Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has performed human pain research for more than three decades and in the field of spinal cord injury (SCI) for over 29 years. Her interests are influenced by her clinical background and interest in elucidating the underlying mechanisms of human pain and the cognitions and behaviors that determine the impact of pain. Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has used highly innovative methods including magnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate brain mechanisms and adapted outcome measures used in other chronic pain populations to people with SCI. She has also been instrumental in developing, presenting, and promoting the International SCI Pain Data Sets and the NINDS CDEs for SCI and Pain. She serves as the Chair or as a member in both National and International efforts to standardize pain outcome measures and pain classification, and clinical guidelines related to pain management.

Dr. Widerstrom-Noga has a strong interest in the perspectives of SCI stakeholders because these can significantly influence both the experience and management of pain. These perspectives have guided her recent research regarding multimodal non-pharmacological pain treatment approaches and pain education using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Dr. Widerstrom-Noga’s laboratory investigates the effects of pain education and various neuromodulatory methods such as exercise, bodily illusions and tDSC. She has extensive interdisciplinary and translational clinical pain research experience in persons with neurotrauma, including the use of a wide spectrum of pain outcome measurements and pain phenotyping.

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UTCSP Research Update February 8, 2026

🔹 The transitional pain service: a narrative review on the approach to managing chronic post-surgical pain
Authors: Praveen K. Ganty, Dorothy Wong, Hance A. Clarke
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41642307/

🔹 Practice advisory for intravenous management of headache disorders in hospitalized patients: a review of the evidence and consensus recommendations
Authors: Yasmine Hoydonckx, Emeralda Burke, Marina Englesakis, Akash Goel, Himanshu Gupta
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40602807/

🔹 Evaluating the Statistical Robustness of Randomized Controlled Trials of Spinal Cord Stimulation for Pain through the Use of Fragility Index
Authors: Faraj W. Abdallah
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41376548/

🔹 Preoperative anxiety is associated with postoperative cardiovascular events, extubation delay, and pain in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A prospective observational study
Authors: Malcolm Koo
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41653585/

🔹 Functional changes in health during and after pregnancy in people with spinal cord injury — an international cohort study
Authors: Claire Mazzia, Anne Berndl
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41646511/

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