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Behavioral measures of pain:Doctors will evaluate the child's motor responses, facial expressions, crying and behavior (for example, sleep-wake patterns). Physiologic measures of pain:Doctors measureblood pressureand pulse changes, as well as take note of palmsweating....
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89 The medical management of pain and/or muscle cramps is often disappointing. Gabapentin, pregabalin, muscle-relaxing agents, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medication can be helpful for a short period of time; however, their chronic use is problematic. View article Approach to pain management ...
Pain management:The process of providing medical care that alleviates or reduces pain. Mild to moderate pain can usually be treated withanalgesicmedications, such as aspirin. For chronic or severe pain, opiates and other narcotics may be used, sometimes in concert with analgesics; with steroids or...
Therefore, there is a critical need for new analgesics able to fulfil the gap existing between opioid analgesics and antalgics. These new analgesics could be of major interest in a number of severe pain syndromes. The discovery that the endogenous morphine-like peptides enkephalins are degraded ...
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One non-significant finding of the present study was that the participants used less medication for pain relief at one-year follow-up than they did pre-treatment. A follow-up study with greater statistical power than the present study should be undertaken to further examine this finding. This ...
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