Introduction 345 The etiology of tumor-related pain 345 The epidemiology of cancer pain in pediatrics 346 Breakthrough cancer pain in children 346 Nonpharmacological methods of pain control in children with cancer 346 Pharmacological management of cancer pain in children 347 Anesthetic approaches to pain management 354 Terminal sedation 354 Tolerance, physical dependence, addiction 354 Referenc...

Pain experience in sport had been the subject of increasing research in recent years. While sports professionals have generally been found to have higher pain thresholds than control subjects the reasons for this are not entirely clear. The present study seeks to investigate one possible explanatory factor, the importance of the popular image of the physical activity and of the self-image of it...

Opioids have been and continue to be used for the treatment of chronic pain. Evidence supports the notion that opioids can be safely administered in patients with chronic pain without the development of addiction or chemical dependency. However, over the past several years, concerns have arisen with respect to administration of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain, particularly non-cancer ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to test whether acupuncture could modify the threshold of tolerance to thermal and electrical stimuli. METHODS A randomised placebo-controlled single-blind trial was conducted in 36 healthy volunteers randomly distributed to control (no treatment), conventional acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups. The subjects were blind to the group allocation. The aut...

s The Journal of Pain S63 relationship between participant sex and pain outcomes. Results indicated that stoic fortitude and SS were significant mediators of the relationship between sex and heat and cold tolerance. SS, but not stoicism, also mediated the relationship between sex and ischemic and electric pain tolerance. These findings lend support for stoicism and SS as mediators for sex diffe...

Hypnotic focused analgesia, comparable to chemical local anesthesia, has been widely documented in our Laboratory after hypnotic suggestions. This study is aimed at producing hypnotic local anesthesia suggesting that a hand does not belong to the body (body dysmorphism) without any direct suggestions of analgesia. Eight healthy, highly hypnotizable volunteers underwent a cold pressor test keepi...

OBJECTIVES To explore the efficacy of reflexology on acute pain induced in healthy human subjects using a sham TENS control. DESIGN An ice-pain experiment was undertaken in which the volunteers (n = 15; 11 female and 4 male with a mean ± SEM age of 37.7 ± 2.6 years) were required to immerse their non-dominant hand in a container of ice-slurry whilst two indices of pain, i.e. threshold, (the t...

Hypnotic focused analgesia, comparable to chemical local anesthesia, has been widely documented in our Laboratory after hypnotic suggestions. This study is aimed at producing hypnotic local anesthesia suggesting that a hand does not belong to the body (body dysmorphism) without any direct suggestions of analgesia. Eight healthy, highly hypnotizable volunteers underwent a cold pressor test keepi...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of stress and estradiol (E2) on pain tolerance. Ovariectomized rats were assigned to treatment groups based on a 2 x 4 factorial design comprising stress (nonstress x stress) and hormone treatment vehicle x E2 [0.25 mg/kg/d]) x estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha)-selective agonist propyl pyrazole triol (1 mg/kg/d) x estrogen receptor beta (ERb...