BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a significant public health burden affecting more Americans than cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer combined. Veterans are disproportionately affected by chronic pain. Among previously deployed soldiers and veterans, the prevalence of chronic pain is estimated between 44% and 60%. OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to develop and pilot-test Healt...

introduction: neuropathic pain can be very difficult to treat and it is one of the important medical challenging about pain treatments. muscimol as a new agonist of gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor type a (gaba a ) have been introduced for pain management. thus, the present study was performed to evaluate the pain alleviating effect of intrathecal injection of different doses of muscimol as gab...

Although gender differences in pain and analgesia are well known, it still remains unclear whether men and women vary in response to multimodal pain treatment. This study was conducted to investigate whether men and women exhibited different outcomes after an intensive multimodal pain treatment program. The daily outpatient program consisted of individual treatment as well as group therapy, wit...

AIMS to evaluate the impact of an eight-week psychoeducational program focused on pain intensity, disability and depressive symptoms of patients with chronic pain. METHOD 79 patients with chronic pain of different etiologies composed the sample. Patients were assessed before, at the end of the intervention and six months after the intervention. The program was developed by a nurse using cogni...

Introduction Low back pain (LBP) is a ubiquitous condition with a 60% to 90% lifetime incidence and a 5% annual incidence. It is the most common cause of disability in the United States in people younger than 45 years of age and is second to the common cold as the most frequent reason for visiting the doctor. The annual cost of managing LBP is estimated to be a staggering $56 billion. Although ...

BACKGROUND Pain following hip fracture and internal fixation is a major factor during the treatment of elderly patients on rehabilitation programs. A proactive pain management program was instituted in our geriatric rehabilitation ward in 2005. OBJECTIVES To compare retrospectively two groups of patients, one before and one after implementation of the proactive pain management program. METH...

Background Pain medicine is a developing specialty, aimed at relieving pain and suffering, enhancing function, and improving the quality of life of patients. Pain is often ignored, under-reported and mismanaged by health-care providers. Aspiring pain physicians in India face many challenges and barriers in advancing their specialty. Objectives The objective of this study is to determine the c...

One of the reasons for inadequate pain treatment in hospitalized patients is that nurses have insufficient knowledge about pain and pain management. To address this problem, a Pain Monitoring Program (PMP) for nurses was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The PMP consisted of two components: educating nurses about pain, pain assessment, and pain management, and implementing daily pain asses...

purpose: patients may control postoperative pain by self-administration of intravenous opioids   using devices designed for this purpose (patient controlled analgesia or pca). this study set out   to determine whether any of the two opioid administrations (i.e. pca or conventional analgesia)   would provide superior pain relief among patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy   or not.   ...