Patients with controlled background pain associated with cancer frequently also experience episodes of moderate to severe intensity breakthrough pain. Opioid pharmacotherapy, particularly with oral morphine, remains the cornerstone for the management of cancer pain. Nasal administration of opioids provides a mechanism for more rapid drug absorption and more rapid onset of pain relief compared w...

Despite improvements in perioperative care, major surgical operations are still followed by sequelae such as pain, organ dysfunction and prolonged convalescence. It has been assumed that suf®cient pain relief will improve the surgical outcome with reduced morbidity, need for hospitalization and convalescence, and there is a common consensus that optimal (dynamic) pain relief is a prerequisite f...

1555 Viewpoint A placebo is usually defined as a pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder.

We investigate the polarization properties of holographic gratings in side-chain azobenzene polyesters in which an anisotropic grating that is due to photoinduced linear and circular birefringence is recorded in the volume of the material and a relief grating appears on the surface. A theoretical model is proposed to explain the experimental results, making it possible to understand the influen...

The present article deals with innovation and therapeutic efficacy of Akshun -bathing lotion for pain relief a proprietary Siddha drug. The clinical trial findings show that the product possess pain relieving effect and which was reported by the patients suffered from cervical spondylitis, low back pain and pain in the joints; participated in the trial. Further the period of relief was stated t...

INTRODUCTION Use of Selective Nerve Root Block (SNRB) in lumbar region to relieve radicular pain along the course of a particular nerve is being practiced in the recent past. We observed and tabulated therapeutic outcomes of this procedure in management of radiculopathy induced by a prolapsed disc affecting a particular lumbar nerve root. METHODS 40 patients with various grades of disc prolap...

In order to solve the support problem of deep soft crushed coal roadway, a concentrated cavern in mining station mine is taken as test object. Based on analysis and summary field observation data law rock pressure appearance, new technology relief anchoring with main body “initiative + borehole relief” proposed. This will carry out strong active shallow part surrounding excavate row low-density...

An Ayurvedic preparation consisting of dried ginger, black pepper, pippali and leadwort root fermented in cow's urine was given internally and a paste made of several meical herbs including Psoralea corylifolia for external application was tried in patients with vitiligo. 4 out of 10 patients had relief within six months of treatment. Three patients had relief with adverse reaction on the skin ...