BACKGROUND Aging is often associated with the challenge of navigating daily tasks with a painful chronic medical illness. Yet, there is concern of the number of older adults impacted with more than one chronic condition. Despite the increasing number of adults diagnosed with diabetes and comorbid chronic illnesses, there remains a lack of understanding in how multiple illnesses relate to experi...

Background: Pain is a subjective experience and different people describe their pain differently. Due to biological, psychological sociocultural differences among gender there variation in experiences. Though medical history taking have been studied it still concept that needs exploration. In addition the impact of on sleep function be explored. Methods: A sample 240 patients including both mal...

Pain is a sensation felt in one or more parts of the body, and it bad feeling that bothers people. Every person who feels pain learns about early life through experiences with injury. In recent years, chronic has begun to be accepted as disease rather than symptom. Therefore, does not always mean tissue damage. Although scientific studies have made rapid progress our perspective on pain, mechan...

Current trends in the development of personalized medicine dictate need to interpret chronic pain as a multifactorial biopsychosocial phenomenon. A comprehensive integrated approach management patients with includes nosological diagnostics, assessment factors that determine persistence and comorbid pathology, use necessary pharmacological non-pharmacological methods treatment. Currently, primar...

OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal conditions are a major burden on individuals, health systems, and social care systems. The objective of the MAPPING study was to assess the impact of musculoskeletal conditions on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in an Italian population sample. METHODS Trained rheumatologists carried out structured visits in which subjects were asked about musculoskeletal sympt...