BACKGROUND Chronic pain is common among the older population. A literature review on pain management program showed that exercise, yoga, massage therapy, Tai Chi, and music therapy could significantly reduce pain. In spite of the proven benefits of pain management programs, these intervention programs were effective only in the short term, and older adults would resume their old habits. It has ...

Bone pain is the most common type of pain in cancer. Bony metastases are common in advanced cancers, particularly in multiple myeloma, breast, prostate or lung cancer. Current pain-relieving strategies include the use of opioid-based analgesia, bisphosphonates and radiotherapy. Although patients experience some pain relief, these interventions may produce unacceptable side-effects which inevita...

Shrinking of deafferented somatosensory regions after neural damage is thought to participate to the emergence of neuropathic pain, and pain-relieving procedures have been reported to induce the normalization of altered cortical maps. While repetitive magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the motor cortex can lessen neuropathic pain, no evidence has been provided that this is concomitant to changes in...

A 44-year-old Malay female was referred from a district hospital with upper abdominal pain of two years duration. The pain was dull aching, periodic and felt in the epigastrium and right hypochondrium. There were no aggravating or relieving factors. The pain had progressively increased in severity over a two-year period. There was no history of jaundice or symptoms suggestive of acute infection...

Medication overuse headache is a secondary headache-a worsening of a pre-existing headache (usually a primary headache) owing to overuse of one or more attack-aborting or pain-relieving medications.

BACKGROUND AND AIM Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) -guided prostate biopsy is often a painful procedure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of combining oral paracetamol and codeine with periprostatic nerve block in relieving prostate biopsy-related pain. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this prospective study we compared the pain associated with prostate biopsy between two groups o...

pain, particularly after surgery, can create a variety of side effects including delay in wound healing. different drugs such as pethidine and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used for relieving patient's pain after surgery. the purpose of this research was to compare effect of pethidine vs. diclofenac (d) suppository in relief of pain after laminectomy. a total of 100 patients who und...

Throughout history, various forms of morphine have been the most effective medications in relieving pain. Opioid analgesics—the natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic derivatives of morphine—are used routinely in the management of acute musculoskeletal pain. However, myths and misunderstandings about these drugs often prevent primary care physicians from prescribing them for chronic pain, such a...