‘Relieving’ the Year of 2022 in Pain Management

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Table 1. Top five most read articles from Volume 12 of Pain Management^†.

Rank	Article type	Article title	Author (s)	Volume (issue)	Ref.
1	Case Series	Myofascial pain syndrome and SARS-CoV-2: a case series	Jaldhi Patel & Saba Javed	12 (3)	[1]
2	Review	Management of chronic non-cancer pain: a framework	Stephen E Nadeau & Richard A Lawhern	12 (6)	[2]
3	Case Series	Acute worsening of clinical presentation in CRPS after SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination: a case series	Jessica Zhang & Semih Gungor	12 (3)	[3]
4	Research Article	Real-world evidence of sustained improvement following 60-day peripheral nerve stimulation treatment for pain: a cross-sectional follow-up survey	Matthew J Pingree, Mark FB Hurdle, David A Spinner, Ali Valimahomed, Nathan D Crosby & Joseph W Boggs	12 (5)	[4]
5	Research Article	Tapentadol prolonged release in patients with chronic low back pain: real-world data from the German Pain eRegistry	Michael A Überall , Christian Elling, Christoph Eibl, Gerhard HH Müller-Schwefe, Claudia Lefeber, Myriam Heine & Birgit Heckes	12 (2)	[5]

† As of 21 October 2022.

Table 2. Articles published in Pain Management in 2022 with the highest Altmetric scores^†.

Rank	Article name	Article type	Author(s)	Volume (Issue)	Altmetric score	Ref.
1	Effectiveness comparison of remote electrical neuromodulation and standard-care medications for acute treatment of chronic migraine: a post-hoc analysis	Short communication	Brian Grosberg, Liron Rabany, Maya Vizel, Alon Ironi, Dagan Harris, Alit Stark-Inbar & Timothy R Smith	12 (7)	262	[6]
2	Management of chronic non-cancer pain: a framework	Review	Stephen E Nadeau & Richard A Lawhern	12 (6)	118	[2]
3	Real-world evidence of sustained improvement following 60-day peripheral nerve stimulation treatment for pain: a cross-sectional follow-up survey	Research Article	Matthew J Pingree, Mark FB Hurdle, David A Spinner, Ali Valimahomed, Nathan D Crosby & Joseph W Boggs	12 (5)	85	[7]
4	Understanding the role of patient preference in the treatment algorithm for chronic low back pain: results from a survey-based study	Research Article	Peter Staats, Timothy Deer, Einar Ottestad, Michael Erdek, David Spinner & Amitabh Gulati	12 (3)	78	[8]
5	HTX-011 effectively reduces postoperative pain intensity and opioid use in the elderly	Research Article	Tina Yip, Jia Hu, Pamela S Hawn, Amy Yamamoto & Gary Oderda	12 (1)	74	[9]

† As of 21 October 2022.

Figure 1. Pain Management’s percentage authorship by continent.

Patel J , JavedS. Myofascial pain syndrome and SARS-CoV-2: a case series. Pain Manag.12(3), 255–260 (2022).

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Nadeau SE , LawhernR. A. Management of chronic non-cancer pain: a framework. Pain Manag.12(6), 751–777 (2022).

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Zhang J , GungorS. Acute worsening of clinical presentation in CRPS after SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination: a case series. Pain Manag.12(3), 249–254 (2022).

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Pingree MJ , HurdleMF , SpinnerDA , ValimahomedA , CrosbyND , BoggsJW. Real-world evidence of sustained improvement following 60-day peripheral nerve stimulation treatment for pain: a cross-sectional follow-up survey. Pain Manag.12(5), 611–621 (2022).

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Überall MA , EllingC , EiblCet al. Tapentadol prolonged release in patients with chronic low back pain: real-world data from the German Pain eRegistry. Pain Manag.12(2), 211–227 (2022).

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Grosberg B , RabanyL , VizelMet al. Effectiveness comparison of remote electrical neuromodulation and standard-care medications for acute treatment of chronic migraine: a post-hoc analysis. Pain Manag.12(7), 837–844 (2022).

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Staats P , DeerT , OttestadE , ErdekM , SpinnerD , GulatiA. Understanding the role of patient preference in the treatment algorithm for chronic low back pain: results from a survey-based study. Pain Manag.12(3), 371–382 (2022).

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Yip T , HuJ , HawnPS , YamamotoA , OderdaG. HTX-011 effectively reduces postoperative pain intensity and opioid use in the elderly. Pain Manag.12(1), 45–57 (2022).

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