Chronic low back pain, defined as low back pain lasting more than 3 months, is a globally prevalent health problem with significantly high medical and economic burden on individuals and the society. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of chronic low back pain and examine its association ...
Just a few RSD pages to check out: Pain.Com - has a section on RSD NINDS - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Home Page- They have a page about Chronic Pain & RSD Page Medifocus: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Handbook Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Fact Sheet Reflex Sympath...
using a customized data extraction sheet. The data extraction sheet was piloted on several studies before the commencement of the search. The following descriptive data were extracted from each included study: age, gender, sample size, chronic condition, region of pain, region assessed, pain ...
Patients present with hoarseness, sore throat, chronic throat clearing, cough, or pain.115,192,193 Gastric-laryngeal reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease causes contact ulcer as a result of pepsin (not hydrochloric acid) injury to the laryngeal mucosa.193-195 Macroscopy Contact ulcer usually ...
Several antagonists against P2X receptors have entered clinical trials and shown some therapeutic efficacy, such as the P2X7 antagonists CE-224,5353 and AZD90564 (rheumatoid arthritis)3, GSK-1482160 (inflammation)4, AFC-5128 (neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis, and gastrocnemius dystrophy)5, JNJ-...
In this book, Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel address the difficulties faced by those with illness symptoms that are not easily observable to others, such as chronic pain and chronic fatigue. The authors discuss ways that those who struggle with invisible chronic illness can communicate with...
Objectives A fundamental principle of pain management is educating patients on their pain using current neuroscience. However, current pain neurophysiology education (PNE) interventions show variable success in improving pain outcomes, and may be difficu
Chronic sinusitisis defined as persistent or recurrent episodes of infection or inflammation of one or more sinus cavities that produce the majority or all of the following symptoms and signs: headache, facial pain, head congestion, purulent postnasal drainage or rhinorrhea, and fatigue.6Purulent muc...
“You just try and swallow the pain; you try and buck up and be strong. You don’t want to talk about it, so sometimes you do wind up cancelling jobs or not showing up to work.” To this day, ten years after receiving a correct diagnosis and undergoing proper treatment, Lakshmi ...
21 Patients with COPD have been demonstrated to have similar degrees of severe pain and depression and worse dyspnea, functional status, and anxiety compared with patients with lung cancer.4,5 For patients with advanced COPD, maximal therapy produces modest resolution of symptoms, leaving significant...