Most children in hospital have pain. Seeing your child in pain or discomfort is incredibly difficult. Pain in children is a public health concern of major significance in most parts of the world. We have learned that unrelieved pain causes the body to release certain chemicals that may actually delay healing, so it's important to work with child's nurses and doctors to help children for control...

OBJECTIVE To compare pain, discomfort, complications and convalescence during and after vasectomy performed conventionally or using the Li 'no-scalpel' method. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between March 1993 and May 1995, 256 men were vasectomized at two city hospitals in Copenhagen; half of the patients underwent the conventional technique at one hospital and the remaining half the Li method at the ...

INTRODUCTION Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain and tenderness throughout the body. Patients with fibromyalgia are treated with pharmacotherapy and many other therapies. However, because the cause of fibromyalgia is unclear, there is currently no clinically effective treatment method. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a patient who developed fibromyalgia after left femoral ne...

Pain and discomfort are subjective perceptions that difficult to quantify. Various methods scales have been developed find an optimal manner describe them; however, these use with some categories of patients. Audification pain has utilized as feedback in rehabilitation settings enhance motor perception control, but not assessment communication settings. We present a novel tool, the Audification...

‘‘He inflicts none of those small pains and discomforts which irregular men scatter about them and which in the aggregate so often become formidable obstacles both to happiness and utility; while on the contrary he bestows all the pleasures, and inspires all that ease of mind on those around him or connected with him, with perfect consistency, and (if such a word might be framed) absolute relia...

OBJECTIVES Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a key indicator of health. However, HRQOL data from representative populations in South Asia are lacking. This study aims to describe HRQOL overall, by age, gender and socioeconomic status, and examine the associations between selected chronic conditions and HRQOL in adults from three urban cities in South Asia. METHODS We used data from 16...

Background: Particular circumstances in the intensive care unit have led the patients to experience significant levels of pain and discomfort. On the other hand, these patients cannot express their discomfort due to several reasons. Aim: to develop the causes of discomfort in the intensive care units. Methods: In order for assessing the causes of discomfort, the initial questionnaire was extrac...

The objective of this paper was to study whether subjects in a workplace setting are able to assess the intensity of musculoskeletal pain retrospectively for a period of 3 months. The intensity of average pain and maximum pain in eight anatomic regions was assessed on a numeric rating scale. The results of 12 consecutive weekly pain recordings were compared with a final retrospective assessment...