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Assessment of pain in rheumatic diseases.
Pain is the most prominent symptom in people with musculoskeletal disorders, and the most common motivation for patients seeking medical help. However, pain generally is not recorded quantitatively in routine medical care. Over the last three decades, self-report questionnaires have been developed in which a patient may record quantitatively a pain score at baseline and over time to determine w...
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Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...
متن کامل[non-pharmacological Pain Management of Rheumatic Diseases].
Rheumatic diseases are a leading cause of chronic painful conditions, which, if not recognized and treated in a timely manner, cause inability and consequently reduce the quality of life of individuals. Chronic pain in rheumatic patients has a multifactorial background. Therefore, it is oft en accompanied by sleep and mood disturbances, fatigue, and reduced functional capacity of joints and the...
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diseases Although pain is commonly the patients’ utmost priority and the reason most patients seek rheumatologic consultation, the medical community has historically had a poor understanding of the etiology, mechanisms and treatment of pain. Rheumatologists often consider pain a peripheral entity, but there is great discordance between pain severity and purported peripheral causes of pain, such...
متن کامل[etiology and Pathogenesis of Pain in Rheumatic Diseases].
Rheumatic diseases are chronic inflammatory disorders with ongoing inflammation that causes tissue damage. Inflammatory and damaged cells synthetize and release many diff erent intracellular substances which can activate highly specialized subsets of primary sensory neurons called nociceptors. Some of these proinflammatory mediators directly activate the nociceptor terminal and produce pain (su...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.57.1.62