meditation, biofeedback, acupuncture, electrical stimulation, and surgery (NIH MedlinePlus 2012). However, in those cases that do not respond to initial pain management treatment options with lower risk interventions, patients with chronic pain may have no other choice but to initiate pharmacologic ...
ManagementPain is a common event in many scenarios involving healthcare, from birth to death, in the hospital or outside of it. The overall purpose of this work was to critically review articles on types of pain and options employed in managing pain. Some electronic sources like google ...
Intravenous ketamine infusions for neuropathic pain management: a promising therapy in need of optimization. Anesth Analg. 2017;124(2):661–74. https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000001787. Comprehensive clinical trial demonstrating the benefit of short-term ketamine infusions for treatment of ...
Musculoskeletal pain is a condition that characterises several diseases and represents a constantly growing issue with enormous socio-economic burdens, highlighting the importance of developing treatment algorithms appropriate to the patient’s needs and effective management strategies. Indeed, the algic condit...
Which Conditions Cause Chronic Pain? Sometimes chronic pain can begin without any obvious cause. But for many people, it starts after an injury or because of a health condition. Some of the leading causes include: Past injuries or surgeries ...
Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2711509/. Accessed May 25, 2017. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Bonakdar RA, Sukkiennik AW. Integrative pain management. 1st ed. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press; 2016. Book Google Scholar Horrigan B, ...
Pain; intractable; narcotics; therapy Abstract: Pain Clinics should be staffed to find alternative means of helping to control the symptoms of the patient with chronic pain other than by the administration of either non-steroidal type analgesics or opioid analgesics. It is well known that the chro...
Pain management for elderly patients can be frustrating. Polypharmacy frequently is the rule, not the exception. Scheduling doses, avoiding combination products, counseling carefully, and anticipating side effects can mean the difference between pain control and constant agony. ...
Myofascial pain caused by trigger points is not an autoimmune condition. But it can sometimes overlap with autoimmune conditions such as fibromyalgia. SourcesUpdate History Share Print Save View privacy policy, copyright and trust info Next In Types of Pain Abdominal Pain Show more articles More...
Very often in the management of CPSP, absolute pain reduction is often not an achievable aim. Conclusion Much progress has been made in the last 13 years since the publication by Kehlet drawing attention to the burden of chronic post surgical pain.1 Much needs to be done however to raise ...