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Luda Diatchenko

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Low back pain.

Book section · December 13, 2018 Low back pain affects individuals of all ages and is a leading contributor to disease burden worldwide. Despite advancements in assessment and treatment methods, the management of low back pain remains a challenge for researchers and clinicians alike. One ... Full text Link to item Cite

Genetic risk factors for orofacial pain: Insights from human experimental studies

Book section · June 1, 2015 This chapter takes, as a starting point, the clinically well-known notion that symptoms of chronic orofacial pain are highly variable from patient to patient and that using these symptoms to guide pain treatment is not enough to manage patients successfull ... Cite

Translating Genetic Knowledge into Clinical Practice for Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions

Book section · November 25, 2013 This chapter focuses on the genetic factors that contribute to chronic low back pain (LBP), chronic widespread pain (CWP), fibromyalgia (FM), and painful temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD), which collectively represent a set of pain conditions that ar ... Full text Cite

Discovering Multilocus Associations with Complex Pain Phenotypes

Book section · November 25, 2013 This chapter covers statistical complexity in pain genetics. It discusses the analysis of the multiple genetic markers within one gene locus. The choice of the best analysis between these markers and phenotype depends on the relationships between these mar ... Full text Cite