2015 Accepted Poster Abstracts

Sandip Madhav
Cauda Equina Syndrome secondary to a chalk-like precipitate around an intrathecal catheter: a case report

Yumi Maeda
Cortical thickness increase following acupuncture therapy is associated with symptom improvement in idiopathic hand pain

Julien Mamet
AYX2 transcription factor decoy produces a long-term resolution of chronic pain following a single intrathecal injection by inhibiting the triumvirate of KLF6, 9 and 15 transcription factors

Andrew Mannes
Systems analyses of RNA-Seq transcriptomic responses in peripheral tissue, DRG and dorsal horn during carrageenan-induced inflammation

Renee Manworren
Predicted pain in pediatric surgical procedures

Marc Martel
Opioid craving among chronic pain patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy: A within-person analysis

Loren Martin
Male-specific conditioned pain hypersensitivity in mice and humans

Vani Mathur
Optimism is associated with decreased bilateral anterior insula activity during a conditioned pain modulation paradigm

Marianne Matthias
Facilitators and barriers to peer support for chronic pain self-management in veterans

Laura Matzke
Spinal cord stimulation for treatment neuropathic pain associated with erythromelalgia

Matthew Mauck
Predictors of pain severity after major thermal burn injury vary according to phase of burn wound healing

Melissa Mazor
Characterization of chemotherapy-induced neuropathy using patient reported outcome measures

Deborah McDonald
The relationship between reminiscence, physical activity and pain

Deborah McDonald
Non-drug pain strategies used by heart failure patients with chronic pain

Gregory McIntire
Modelling oral fluid test results for hydrocodone: assisting with assessment of dose compliance

Nick McKernan
Delayed presentation of an epidural abscess with resultant meninigitis following an uneventful neurostimulator trial; a case report

Bridgett McNulty
Revision and validation of the critical-care pain observation tool in critically ill adults with brain injury: a pilot trial

Salimah Meghani
African Americans with cancer pain are more likely to make analgesic use decisions based on side-effects

Samantha Meints
Examining race differences in pain-related coping: a meta-analysis

Zare Melyan
In vivo activation of SK channels reduces the dose of NMDA receptor antagonist needed to produce antinociception

Zare Melyan
Establishing an animal model for National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) Auricular Acupuncture Protocol

Frédérique Menzaghi
CR845, a peripheral kappa opioid, provides better pain relief with less nausea and vomiting than placebo in patients after bunionectomy

Victoria Menzies
Polypharmacy, opioid use, and chronic widespread pain: a secondary analysis of clinical trial data

Shannon Merkle
Central inhibition and excitability measures are independent of each other

Jessica Merlin
Pain self-management in HIV-infected individuals with chronic pain: a qualitative study

Ericka Merriwether
Validity and reliability of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) for pain interference and quality of life in women with fibromyalgia

Ericka Merriwether
Higher physical activity is associated with lower pain in women with fibromyalgia

Marco Meyer
Local differences in nicotinic receptor expression in the dorsal root ganglia in an animal model of neuropathic pain

Stephanie Middleton
Exploring the sensory hypersensitivity scale with quantitative sensory testing

Megan Miller
The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain in a clinical pediatric sample

Gaurav Misra
Differences between neural correlates of high intensity and low intensity pain

Nimish Mittal
Temporo mandibular dysfunctions: a multitude of craniocervical symptoms

Nimish Mittal
Correlation of clinical pain scales with disability rating scales to predict outcomes in patients with radicular low back pain

Annabelle Morales Mena
Immediate benefits of a multidisciplinary educational program for fibromyalgia on patients' pain related self-efficacy and health locus of control

Benjamin Morasco
Development and preliminary evaluation of an integrated cognitive-behavior treatment for patients with Hepatitis C virus who have comorbid chronic pain and substance use disorder

Clinton Morgan
A novel optogenetic spinal cord stimulator for wireless, bi-directional control of nociceptive circuitry in freely moving mice

Jose Moron-Concepcion
AMPA glutamate receptors containing the GluA4 subunit are expressed in epidermal keratinocytes and may be involved in chronic itch and painful peripheral neuropathies

Gyasi Moscou-Jackson
Identifying central sensitization in adults with sickle cell disease: differences in clinical features and psychobehavioral factors

Michael Mousseau
Role of microglia and P2X7 receptors in arthritis pain

Niki Munk
Novel prototype devise combines massage therapy with components of mirror therapy to address phantom limb pain in lower-limb amputees

Lindsay Murray
The impact of catastrophizing and fear of pain and (re)injury on pain intensity, perceived disability, and recovery expectancies among individuals with spinal cord injury

Kelly Naugle
Dysfunction of endogenous pain inhibition following acute aerobic exercise in healthy older adults

Ariana Nelson
The incidence and severity of physical pain symptoms in Marfan syndrome: a survey of 993 patients

Timothy Ness
Pudendal nerve stimulation inhibits visceromotor responses to urinary bladder distension during concurrent treatment with acute or chronic morphine

Vu Nguyen
Evaluation of diabetes screening questionnaire for the identification of patients with undiagnosed Diabetes Mellitus preceding steroid injection therapy

Ruby Nguyen
Pre-pregnancy and first trimester menstrual and pain characteristics of pregnant women

Ruby Nguyen
Temporal role of yeast infections prior to the onset of vulvodynia and after pain development

Chinwe Nwaneshiudu
Acute tolerance to opioid-induced respiratory depression after fentanyl and morphine administration

Jennifer Nyland
Preparing for disaster: analgesic needs for mass burn casualties

Jennifer Nyland
Combined serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibition reduces the effects of stress on post-injury pain behaviors in a rat model of burn injury

Charles Odonkor
Whither the twain shall meet: insomnia and distraction analgesia

Charles Odonkor
Does ethnicity associate with distraction analgesia effect in response to Capsaicin?

Tobore Onojighofia
Study to comprehensively calculate individual pain perception by incorporating genetic and phenotypic risk factors

Tobore Onojighofia
Genetics and drug response: study on the influence of genetics in individual variations in response to oxycodone use

Tobore Onojighofia
Genetics and drug response: study on the role of genetics in analgesic response variations in chronic pain patients taking hydrocodone

Andrew O'Shea
Gray matter abnormalities in chronic fatigue syndrome

Andrew O'Shea
Default mode network connectivity in chronic fatigue syndrome patients

Michael Owens
Sleep disturbance in chronic low back pain: an age- and gender-matched case-control study

Michael Owens
Pain catastrophizing and cytomegalovirus antibody titers in adults with chronic pain

Candler Paige
Reduction of cytokine levels in human macrophages over-expressing CD163

Shreela Palit
Pain anxiety is associated with pain sensitivity even after controlling for anxiety sensitivity

Ashley Pantaleao
Monitoring home pain management after laparoscopic appendectomy

Yuri Park
The effects of anxiety attachment on pain catastrophizing, recognition of emotionally ambiguous facial expression, and interpersonal problems in patients with chronic pain: Preliminary study

Yong Soon Park
The relative utility of pacing and committed action for predicting adjustment to chronic pain

Ji-Yeun Park
The Rho-associated protein kinase activation in the skin tissue mediates acupuncture analgesia

Jun-Mo Park
Ganglion impar block for chronic vulvar pain syndrome

Luke Parkitny
A potential anti-inflammatory effect of low-dose naltrexone in fibromyalgia

Bruce Parsons
Effects of concomitant neuropathic pain medications on pregabalin-mediated improvements in pain and pain-related sleep interference in patients with postherpetic neuralgia

Kushang Patel
Chronic pain and the risk of death: findings from the 1999-2004 NHANES Mortality Follow-up Study

Kushang Patel
Impact of pain on the prevalence, incidence, and recovery rates of activity-limiting fatigue among older adults in the United States: findings from the 2011-2012 National Health and Aging Trends Study

Jaymin Patel
Reduction of medication usage in patients with complex regional pain syndrome treated in a comprehensive interdisciplinary pain management program

Lynne Pauer
Pregabalin for the treatment of fibromyalgia or painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy: analysis of crossover design studies

Lynne Pauer
Use of a placebo run-in in clinical trials in patients with FM does not impact the response to pregabalin

Michael Payne
Stoicism is associated with experimental measures of pain perception, but not spinal nociception

Megan Pejsa
Physical activity and IL-6 related to capsaicin pain in healthy individuals

Cheryl Perry
Chronic pain management in the acute care setting

Lisa Peters
Simple documentation of comprehensive pain assessment, intervention and reassessment (AIR): improvement cycle applied to AIR cycle

Megan Petrov
Negative affect as a mediator in the sleep-pain relationship among adults with knee osteoarthritis

Jeffrey Petruska
Discovery of a novel type of local anesthetic agent

Megan Pfeiffer
Improving coping skills and functional biomechanics in teens with Juvenile Fibromyalgia: the Fibromyalgia Integrative Training Program for Teens (FIT Teens)

Angela Pierce
Voluntary wheel running reverses bladder hypersensitivity and dysfunction resulting from neonatal maternal separation in female mice

Amir Hossein Pirasteh
Effect of intra-BLA administration of CB1 cannabinoid receptor agonist on sensitization to antinociceptive effect of morphine and expression of μ-opioid receptor in the nucleus accumbens

Michael Politis
Therapeutic device successfully treats carpal tunnel syndrome

Doreen Pon
Identification of inappropriate patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) prescribing patterns to improve patient safety

Raghavender Pottabathini
Biochemical, mitochondrial alterations of PPAR-γ agonist in rat model of neuropathic pain

Melanie Pullen
Bidirectional optogenetic control of peripheral pain transmission with fully wireless implantable microLEDs

Luis Queme
Group III/IV muscle afferents dually modulate nociception and cardiovascular reflexes through a P2Y1 receptor dependent mechanism after ischemic injury.

Jennifer Rabbitts
Presurgical predictors of pain, physical activity, and quality of life in children 4 months after surgery

Katherine Raichle
Positive affect is associated with outcomes of psychosocial interventions for persons with chronic pain and disability

Fenan Rassu
Impulsive decision making and experimental tonic pain

Richard Rauck
Efficacy and tolerability of BEMA buprenorphine in opioid-naive patients with moderate-to-severe chronic low back pain: primary results from a phase 3, enriched-enrollment, randomized withdrawal study

Mary Redding
Sleep disturbance and pain catastrophizing mediate the association between depression and clinical pain severity

Jessica Richards
Sex moderates the relationship between positive affect and pain severity among knee osteoarthritis patients

Joseph Riley
Influence of testing modality on ratings of first and second pain in humans

Mercedes Robinson
Explaining group differences in clinical pain among knee osteoarthritis patients: A moderated mediation model involving pain catastrophizing and sleep disturbance

Sheria Robinson
Poor, scared, and hurting: the experiences of Black elders managing chronic pain

Eduardo Rodenas
An open-label, multicenter study of the safety of twice daily oxycodone hydrochloride controlled-release tablets in opioid experienced children from ages 6 to 16 years old, inclusive, with moderate to severe malignant and/or nonmalignant pain requiring opioid analgesics

Carlos Roldan
Haloperidol vs. placebo in addition to conventional therapy to treat pain secondary to gastroparesis in the emergency department

Carlos Roldan
Using saline for myofascial pain syndromes

Alvina Rosales
What you don't know can hurt you: misconceptions of analgesic use for children's postoperative pain

Jessica Ross
Target-derived IL-1β mediates ischemia and reperfusion injury-induced sensitization of group III and IV muscle afferents

Sean Rundell
Predictors of persistent back pain and persistent disability in older adults with new episodes of back pain

Marco Russo
Efficacy of flurbiprofen 8.75 mg spray in patients with relatively severe sore throat symptoms