Background & Purpose: Fibromyalgia syndrome is a chronic disease with unknown etiology musculoskeletal pain and tender points throughout the body are numerous. The aim of this study was to measure quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome that referred to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation clinic in Baqiyatallah Hospital. Methods & Materials: Patients that referred to Physical...

BACKGROUND Elderly patients visiting pain clinic may be at greater risk of misunderstanding the explanation because of age-related cognitive decline. Video instruction may provide a consistent from of teaching in a visual and realistic manner. We evaluated the effect of educational video on the patient understanding and satisfaction in a group of geriatric patients visiting pain clinic. METHO...

OBJECTIVE To assess the applicability of pain assessment instruments in three hospital settings. METHODOLOGY This study comprised 60 patients with musculoskeletal pain cared for at the Conjunto Hospitalar de Sorocaba: orthopedic ward, Rheumatology outpatient clinic, and orthopedic emergency unit. QUESTIONNAIRES Brief Pain Inventory (BPI); McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ); Visual Analogue Sca...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain can be associated with limitations in patient function. Assessment of pain-related limitations is one of the important outcome domains that should be considered when designing chronic pain clinical trials. Although a validated instrument for the assessment of pain-related disability in Iranian chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients exists, to date there is no psychometric...

BACKGROUND The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has increased the number of antigens and injections administered at one visit. There are concerns that more injections at a single immunisation visit could decrease vaccination coverage. We assessed the acceptability and acceptance of three vaccine injections at a single immunisation visit by caregivers and vaccinators in South Africa. M...

INTRODUCTION There is an on-going debate about what qualifies one to be called a "pain physician" and who can run the "pain clinic". Currently, the discipline of anesthesiology is producing the majority of pain physicians. A literature search was unable to find data for any Pakistani or other South Asian countries with regards to general practitioner (GP) knowledge about pain clinics and pain p...

A Magnetoencephalography Study of 1 Visual Processing of Pain Anticipation 2 3 4 Andre G Machado , Raghavan Gopalakrishnan , Ela Plow , Richard C. Burgess 3, John 5 C Mosher 3 6 7 8 1 Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic 9 Cleveland, OH 10 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 11 Cleveland, OH 12 3 Epilepsy ...

Abstract Pain assessment in clinical settings can be a challenging task for clinic staff and patients. An automatic contactless pain estimation system via facial expression is decisive advantage. In the following article we present method classification based on mimic descriptors. To automatically process expressions from video data applied Facial Action Coding System (FACS). First, employed lo...

BACKGROUND Pain is a common complaint of patients attending walk-in clinics, but timely and appropriate pain management is often lacking. AIM To evaluate the impact of a multifaceted intervention on pain management. DESIGN Prospective interventional study. METHODS Three cross-sectional surveys were conducted: before, 4 months after and 14 months after a multifaceted intervention at the me...