Preoperative evaluationof a patient is vital to any surgical procedure. First and foremost, it is important to obtain the patient’smedical historyand chief complaint. The chief complaint must be in the patient’s own words and is the primary area of discussion. The provider should ask open-en...
They found evidence of an increase in risk of neck pain in the following cases: prolonged periods of sedentary work, repetitive or precision work, working with the cervical spine in flexion for prolonged periods, poor physical environment (lighting, temperature, air quality, room size, and ...
Enhancing communication between medical staff and patients is crucial for establishing optimal pain treatment and supporting high-quality pain self-management [26]. Head and neck cancer (HNC) requires a long treatment period and is associated with functional deficits in vocalization, speech, swallowing,...
Patients responded to weekly SMS-questions about pain intensity and frequency over 43 weeks. We categorized individual responses into four main patterns based on number of days with pain and variations in pain intensity, and subdivided each into four subgroups based on pain intensity, resulting in ...
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Wikipedia. Related to Asymmetrical tonic neck reflex: labyrinthine reflex, Symmetric Tonic Neck Reflex, ATNRnervous system nervous system, network of specialized tissue that controls actions and reactions of the body and its adjustment to the ...
The clinical symptoms include dysphagia, neck pain, sore throat, and odynophagia. The recommended medical management includes an extensive history and physical, laryngoscopy to examine the airway, barium swallow to monitor potential esophageal perforation, and imaging studies of the neck such as CT an...
Objective: To agree on an “unambiguous language” concerning the terminology and classification that can be used by all relevant medical and paramedical disciplines in the Netherlands. Methods: A Delphi consensus strategy was initiated. The outcomes of a multidisciplinary conference were used as a ...
3 While endoscopic sinus surgery has emerged as a viable option in the management of chronic rhinosinusitis, evidence directly comparing its effectiveness with medical management suggests that surgery and long-term medical management may lead to comparable outcomes.4 Furthermore, in other clinical ...
If a fracture does occur, it is a major injury and should be treated as a medical emergency. The patient with a broken hip is completely disabled at once. The patient has severe pain in the hip and resists any attempt to manipulate the limb. The extremity is usually held with the thigh...
In the past, patients with recurrent head and neck cancer (rHNC) who had previously received a high dose of radiation and were unable to undergo surgery were mainly treated with palliative chemotherapy due to the high incidence of side effects from re-ir