Journal Club
Discussing interesting papers in the world of Pain Medicine
Each month, we shall upload a reference to a scientific paper published within the past year, including the online link to access and read it. Papers chosen will be available through open access or through NHS or institutional libraries.
Current Journal Club paper
Looking beyond Piriformis Syndrome: Is It Really the Piriformis?
Sharma S, Kaur H, Verma N, Adhya B.
Hip Pelvis. 2023;35(1):1-5.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10020728/
Previous journal club paper: December 2022
Preoperative Ultrasound-guided Percutaneous Cryoneurolysis for the Treatment of Pain after Mastectomy.
Ilfeld BM, Finneran JJ, Swisher MW, Said ET, Gabriel RA, Sztain JF, Khatibi B, Armani A, Trescot A, Donohue MC, Schaar A, Wallace AM. Preoperative Ultrasound-guided Percutaneous Cryoneurolysis for the Treatment of Pain after Mastectomy: A Randomized, Participant- and Observer-masked, Sham-controlled Study. Anesthesiology. 2022 Nov 1;137(5):529-542.
pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/137/5/529/136633/Preoperative-Ultrasound-guided-Percutaneous
Discussion Framework
Evidence-based information plays a critical role in clinical practice decisions. Secondary sources are often unreliable; it’s up to the student to critically assess peer-reviewed research literature. We are using the framework suggested by Riegelman (Riegelman RK. Studying a study and testing a test. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005) to provoke thought and discussion about the paper.
After reading the paper
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Say what the purpose of the study was.
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Summarise the important points in the article, paying particular attention to the methods that were used.
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Briefly describe the main results.
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Highlight the strengths and weaknesses; how could the study have been improved?
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Did the authors achieve what they set out to achieve?
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Describe the implications of the results and whether you think they may or may not influence practice beneficially or adversely.
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If relevant, say what further research might be carried out.
Follow up
The month following each release, we will publish a brief resume of our personal views on the paper. If you would like to submit comments or views about the paper for posting here or in the Faculty's other publications, please contact us.
What did you think about this paper?
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Previous journal club paper: November 2022
Diagnosis and Management of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.
A Review
Jeffrey N. Katz, Zoe E. Zimmerman, Hanna Mass, et al
JAMA. 2022;327(17):1688-1699
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2791689
Previous journal club paper: October 2022
Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for cervical spine (facet) joint pain from a multispecialty international working group.
Hurley RW, Adams MCB, Barad M, et al.
Pain Med. 2021 Nov 26;22(11):2443-2524. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnab281.
Previous journal club paper: September 2022
Improvement in quality of life and angina pectoris: 1-year follow-up of patients with refractory angina pectoris and spinal cord stimulation.
Vervaat FE, van der Gaag A, van Suijlekom H, Botman CJ, Teeuwen K, Wijnbergen I
Neth Heart J. 2020 Sep;28(9):478-484.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32430654/
Cardiology - recommended by Dr HooKee Tsang
COURAGE, ORBITA, and ISCHEMIA: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
Teoh Z, Al-Lamee RK.
Interv Cardiol Clin. 2020 Oct;9(4):469-482
Previous journal club paper: August 2022
Pain Research and Mangement
Pharmacotherapeutic Options for Managing Neuropathic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Giulia Di Stefano, Andrea Di Lionardo, Giuseppe Di Pietro, Giorgio Cruccu, and
Andrea Truini
Review Article | Open Access
Volume 2021 |Article ID 6656863
Previous journal club paper: July 2022
Theme: Metformin repositioning in rheumatoid arthritis
Matsuoka Y, Morimoto S, Fujishiro M, et al.
Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2021 Jul-Aug;39(4):763-768.
Previous journal club paper: June 2022
Theme: Persistent pain post spinal surgery
Finite Mixture Models Based on Pain Intensity, Functional Disability and Psychological Distress Composite Assessment Allow Identification of Two Distinct Classes of Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome after Surgery Patients Related to Their Quality of Life
Amine Ounajim et al
J. Clin. Med. 2021, 10(20), 4676
Previous journal club paper: May 2022 by Dr Kerry Bosworth
Does cartilage loss cause pain in osteoarthritis and if so, how much?
Bacon K, LaValley MP, Jafarzadeh SR, Felson D.
Ann Rheum Dis. 2020 Aug;79(8):1105-1110.
Previous journal club paper: April 2022
Complex regional pain syndrome – Autoimmune or functional
neurologic syndrome
Christopher Chang, Patrick McDonnell, M. Eric Gershwin
Journal of Translational Autoimmunity 4 (2021) 100080
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589909020300472
Previous journal club paper: March 2022
The Impact of Psychological Factors and their Treatment on the Results of Total Knee Arthroplasty
Kazarian Gregory S, Anthony Christopher A, Lawrie Charles M., Barrack Robert L.
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: September 15, 2021 - Volume 103 - Issue 18 - p 1744-1756
Previous journal club paper: February 2022
The Lancet, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 20 - 31
Efficacy of individual and group hypnotherapy in irritable bowel syndrome (IMAGINE): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
Carla E Flik et al
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468125318303108
Previous journal club paper: January 2022
Nonpharmacological therapies for central poststroke pain - A systematic review
Xiao-Min Xu, MD, Hua Luo, MD, Ben-bing Rong, MD et al.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Oct 16; 99(42): e22611.
Published online 2020 Oct 16. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000022611
Previous journal club paper: December 2021
Virtual reality approaches to pain: toward a state of the science
Trost, Zinaa,*; France, Christopherb; Anam, Monimac; Shum, Coreyd
PAIN: February 2021 - Volume 162 - Issue 2 - p 325-331
Previous journal club paper: November 2021
Theme: CRPS
Cortex
Volume 136, March 2021, Pages 89-108
Special Issue “Attention & Motor Processes”: Research Report
Ignoring space around a painful limb? No evidence for a body-related visuospatial attention bias in complex regional pain syndrome
Antonia F. Ten Brink, Monika Halicka, Axel D. Vittersø, Edmund Keogh, Janet H. Bultitude
Previous journal club paper: October 2021
Food for thought...
Investigation: should liquid morphine be reclassified?
Caroline Wickware, The Pharmaceutical Journal September 2021
Previous journal club paper: September 2021
European Journal of Neurology 2021; 28:1716–1725
Long-term efficacy and safety of erenumab in migraine prevention: Results from a 5-year, open-label treatment phase of a randomized clinical trial
Messoud Ashina | Peter J. Goadsby | Uwe Reuter | Stephen Silberstein |
David W. Dodick | Fei Xue | Feng Zhang | Gabriel Paiva da Silva Lima |
Sunfa Cheng | Daniel D. Mikol
Previous journal club paper: August 2021
Pain physician, 2020 - painphysicianjournal.com
Interventional pain medicine practice in the UK and the USA: A survey of 242 pain physicians
W Bradford, S Gupta, WYBD Bradford
https://www.painphysicianjournal.com/current/pdf?article=NzAyOA%3D%3D&journal=125
Previous journal club paper: July 2021
Pharmacological Research Volume 165, March 2021, 105465
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): Where will the drugs come from?
Peter L. Toogood, Daniel J. Clauw, Sameer Phadke, David Hoffman
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s1043661821000487
Previous journal club paper: June 2021
Anesthesiology Published June 2017, Vol. 126, 1180–1186.
To Stop or Not, That Is the Question: Acute Pain Management for the Patient on Chronic Buprenorphine
T. Anthony Anderson, Ph.D., M.D. ; Aurora N. A. Quaye, M.D. ; E. Nalan Ward, M.D. ; Timothy E. Wilens, M.D. ; Paul E. Hilliard, M.D. ; Chad M. Brummett, M.D.
Previous journal club paper: May 2021
Published online 2021 Mar 18. doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(21)00036-9
Surgical microdiscectomy versus transforaminal epidural steroid injection in patients with sciatica secondary to herniated lumbar disc (NERVES): a phase 3, multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation
Martin John Wilby, Ashley Best, Eifiona Wood, Girvan Burnside, Emma Bedson, Hannah Short, Dianne Wheatley, Daniel Hill-McManus, Manohar Sharma, Simon Clark, Ganesan Baranidharan, Cathy Price, Richard Mannion, Peter J Hutchinson, Dyfrig A Hughes, Anthony Marson, Paula R Williamson
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanrhe/article/PIIS2665-9913(21)00036-9/fulltext#seccestitle10
Previous journal club paper: April 2021
Pain. 2020 Sep; 161(1): S3–S13.
Published online 2020 Aug 19. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001849
PMCID: PMC7434212
PMID: 33090735
John D. Loeser Award Lecture: Size does matter, but it isn't everything: the challenge of modest treatment effects in chronic pain clinical trials
Shannon M. Smith, Maurizio Fava, Mark P. Jensen, Omar B. Mbowe, Michael P. McDermott, Dennis C. Turk and Robert H. Dworkina.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434212/
Previous journal club paper: March 2021
Pain. 2020 Sep; 161(9): 2068–2078.
Published online 2020 May 19. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001928
PMCID: PMC7431140
PMID: 32453139
Tanezumab for chronic low back pain: a randomized, double-blind, placebo- and active-controlled, phase 3 study of efficacy and safety
John D. Markman, Robert B. Bolash, Timothy E. McAlindon, Alan J. Kivitz, Manuel Pombo-Suarez, Seiji Ohtori, Frank W. Roemer, David J. Li, Lars Viktrup, Candace Bramson, Christine R. West, and Kenneth M. Verburg
